MTI is trapped in a COFFIN (review)

Jack Samms returns home from a business trip to find his house invaded by sack-masked Trick who shows him video proving that his wife Rona and her lover Sean have been buried alive.  They have only seventy-five minutes of oxygen and will die unless Jack pays up.  When the police investigating Sean's disappearance connect him to Jack's wife, Jack becomes a suspect in their disappearance while he is trying to outwit Trick to save them.  Kevin Sorbo and Bruce Davison also star.

REVIEW LINK: MTI Home Video (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

COFFIN DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Audio Commentary by director's Kipp Tribble and Derik Wingo
• Behind the Scenes
• Actor Patrick Barnitt's Video Diary
• Trailer
• Additional MTI Home Video Trailers

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MTI and Tino Struckmann in NORMANDY (review)

Writer/director/actor Tino Struckmann (CHAINED: CODE 207) mounts an ambitious WWII period piece set in France (but shot in Tennessee and Alabama) with NORMANDY.  Captain Klaus Mueller is injured on the Russian Front and transferred to Normandy where he reunites with his fiancee Klaudia; however, a sadistic Gestapo agent comes between them and threatens their lives even as the Allied Forces are storming the beaches.

REVIEW LINK: MTI Home Video (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

NORMANDY DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Trailer
• Trailers for other MTI DVD releases

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MTI releases CHAINED: CODE 207 (review)

After army ranger Mack and his unit bust a human trafficking ring, villainous Savage kidnaps Mack's wife.  The police are no help (and may be in on the deal) so Mack tracks down the ring's hideout and sets about taking them down one by one.

REVIEW LINK: MTI Home Video (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

CHAINED: CODE 207 DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio
• Trailer
• Trailers for other MTI releases

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MTI Home Video detours into RESURRECTION COUNTY (review)

When four city slickers decide to camp in Devil's Den National Park right in the middle of RESURRECTION COUNTY (with a detour through Enoch City), you can be pretty sure they're in for a night of torture and gory death.

REVIEW LINK: MTI Home Video (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

RESURRECTION COUNTY DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional Spanish subtitles
• English Closed Captioning
• Theatrical Trailer
• Trailers for other MTI Home Video releases

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MTI resurrects THE UNDYING (Review)

After the tragic death of her fiance, surgeon Elizabeth transfers to a new hospital and rents a Civil War-era farmhouse with its own Confederate ghost.  When a stabbing victim is declared brain dead, Elizabeth thinks she can transfer the ghost's soul into the body.  The result is successful, until she finds out that the stabbing victim was a murderer.  Robin Weigert (TV's DEADWOOD) stars.

REVIEW LINK: MTI Home Video (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE UNDYING DVD specs:*

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Audio Commentary
• MTI Home Video trailers

*screener disc review, final technical specs based on press release

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MTI pulls a HOAX FOR THE HOLIDAYS (review)

Martha MacIsaac, Callum Keith Rennie, and Ricky Mabe star in this bittersweet Christmas tale.  Casey lives in an economically depressed town with her father, who spends most of his time at the bedside of Casey's comatose sister while Casey tries to take care of the house and keep a minimum wage job at a doughnut shop.  A prank involving a cup of coffee and the image of Jesus quickly spirals out of control and has the hole town believing in miracles.  Directed by George Mihalka (MY BLOODY VALENTINE).

REVIEW LINK: MTI Home Video (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

HOAX FOR THE HOLIDAYS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio
• English Closed Captioning
• Optional Spanish subtitles
• Trailers

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MTI reveals THE SHADOW WITHIN (review)

In this worth Italian horror flick, a WWII French village is haunted by spirits from the beyond. Laurence Belcher, Hayley J. Williams, and Beth Winslet (sister of Kate) star in Silvana Zancolo's creepy supernatural thriller THE SHADOW WITHIN.

DVD REVIEW LINK: MTI Home Video (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE SHADOW WITHIN DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional Spanish subtitles
• Trailer
• Trailers for other MTI releases

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MTI has 1 IN THE GUN (review)

An overused film noir plot (particularly popular in DTV and made-for-cable erotic thrillers) detours into David Lynchian wierdness in Rolfe Kanefsky's 1 IN THE GUN starring Steve Man, Katherine Randolph, Robert Davi, Steven Bauer, and James Russo.

REVIEW LINK: MTI Home Video (USA) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

1 IN THE GUN DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• English Closed Captioning
• Optional Spanish subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Rolfe Kanefsky, actor Steve Man, actress Katherine Randolph, and producer Esther Goodstein
• Deleted Scenes with optional commentary
• Bloopers with optional commentary
• Rehearsal Footage with optional commentary
• Behind the Scenes with optional commentary
• Animated Storyboards
• Animated Still Gallery
• Trailer
• Teaser

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MTI plays THE ECHO GAME (review)

A young woman tries to protect her adopted daughter from having her ESP powers stolen by a rogue government scientist in Brian Feeney's THE ECHO GAME, out on DVD this September from MTI Home Video.  Click on the review link below.

REVIEW LINK: MTI Home Video (USA) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE ECHO GAME DVD specs*:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen transfer
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 surround audio
• Audio Commentary
• Behind-the-Scenes
• Trailers
• optional English subtitles

*DVD under review is a screener disc, specs posted above are based on press release specifications.

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MTI's Bigfoot is SAVAGE (review)

Tony Becker (THE HUNTERS), Lisa Wilcox (NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4 and 5), and Martin Kove (BLOOD TIDE) are hunting Bigfoot in a national park in Jordan Blum's SAVAGE, hitting DVD this September from MTI Home Video.

REVIEW LINK: MTI Home Video (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

SAVAGE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic widescreen transfer
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio
• English Closed Captioning
• Optional Spanish subtitles
• MTI Trailers

*specs come from the press release.  review is based on screener disc.

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Encounter ghostly horrors in CLOSED FOR THE SEASON (review)

Aimee Brooks (MONSTER MAN) and Damien Maffei (CHRISTMAS WITH THE DEAD) are trapped in a haunted amusement park in Jay Woefel's CLOSED FOR THE SEASON, coming in August from MTI Home Video.  Joe Unger (ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK) also stars. 

REVIEW LINK: MTI Home Video (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

CLOSED FOR THE SEASON DVD specs:*

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen transfer
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 audio
• Optional Spanish subtitles
• Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Behind the Scenes

* my review source was a screener DVD which did not have the special features listed above