Olive Films digs up THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK (review)

Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng, and Harriet White Medin star in one of the key titles from the Italian golden age of gothic horror.  Dr. Hichcock has a necrophilia kink that he indulges with his wife and his experimental anaesthetic.  When he accidentally overdoses her, he leaves London and returns twelve years later with a new bride but soon finds himself drawn back to his old habits and the haunting apparition of his first wife who may not actually be dead.

REVIEW LINK: Olive Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles 

Olive Films has A BLACK VEIL FOR LISA (review)

John Mills, Luciana Paluzzi, and Robert Hoffmann star in this sixties Italian/German thriller from Massimo Dallamano.  A Hamburg narcotics detective pursuing an elusive underworld figure is driven to distraction and jealousy by his much younger wife.  When he captures the assassin who has been taking out witnesses on his case, he hires the man to kill his wife but her charms could cause the killer to double cross him.

REVIEW LINK: Olive Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

A BLACK VEIL FOR LISA Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono

Slasher Video hunts DEADLY PREY for THE DEADLIEST PREY (review)

REVIEW LINK: Slasher Video/Olive Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

DEADLY PREY Blu-ray specs:

• 1080i60 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
• Interview with make-up artist Jack Hojohn
• Photo Gallery
• Outtakes
• Trailer

THE DEADLIEST PREY Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereo
• Interviews with actor Ted Prior, actor David Prior, actor David Campbell, and actor Fritz Matthews

Olive Films and Slasher Video sharpen SATAN'S BLADE (review)

When two groups of unsuspecting weekenders head to the mountains for vacation, they become the next targets of the reawakened bloodlust of the spirit of a mountain man driven by evil spirits into ridding the mountain of intruders in the ultra low-budget eighties slasher SATAN'S BLADE.

REVIEW LINK: Olive Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

SATAN'S BLADE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 pillarboxe widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
• Director's Narration (interview)
• Remembering SATAN'S BLADE
• Instrumental Cues
• Excerpts from the Dutch and Japanese video releases
• Video Trailer
• Still Gallery
• SATAN'S BLADE Scrapbook

Olive Films enters the devil's doorway in WITCHBOARD 2 (review)

The board is back in WITCHBOARD 2: THE DEVIL'S DOORWAY.  Struggling artist Paige (Ami Dolenz, PUMPKINHEAD 2: BLOOD WINGS) moves into a spacious, fully-furnished loft and discovers that the previous tenant is still around in spirit form communicating with her through a left behind Ouija board.  The spirit is at first helpful to her but becomes more ominous, and anyone who tries to interfere is subject to strange and grizzly freak accidents as the spirit or demon seeks to possess Paige.  Timothy Gibbs (THE KINDRED), John Gatins (LEPRECHAUN 3), and SNL's Laraine Newman star.  Directed by Kevin S. Tenney (NIGHT OF THE DEMONS).

REVIEW LINK: Olive Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

WITCHBOARD 2: THE DEVIL'S DOORWAY Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereo
• Audio Commentary by writer/director Kevin S. Tenney and actors Julie Michaels and John Gatins
• Behind the Scenes Featurette including interviews with Ami Dolenz, Timothy Gibbs, Lorraine Newman, Julie Michaels, Kevin S. Tenney, and others
• Two Deleted Scenes
• Two Home Video Trailers
• Three TV Spots

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Olive Films resurrects THE BOOGENS on Blu-Ray (review)

Olive Films rescues THE BOOGENS from the Paramount vaults with a DVD and Blu-Ray release.  When a long-abandoned mine is re-opened, something long trapped and very hungry goes on the hunt for humans (and poodles) in this long-unavailable eighties horror pic that evokes the atmosphere of fellow mining horror films MY BLOODY VALENTINE and THE STRANGENESS.  SILENT SCREAM's Rebecca Balding stars.

REVIEW LINK: Olive Films (US) Region A Blu-Ray (DVD Drive-In)

THE BOOGENS Blu-Ray specs:

• 16:9 widescreen (1.78:1 aspect ratio)
• English DTS-MA 1.0 original mono
• Audio Commentary by director James L. Conway, writer David O'Malley, and actress Rebecca Balding

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Olive Films opens up THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE (review)

Entomologist Dr. Nils Hellstrom tries to warn the world that insect species are destined to rule the world.  With stunning micro-photography, he reveals the beauty and savagery of the societies of ants, bees, termites, spiders, and butterflies who -- guided by brutal logic -- organize and maintain their worlds for the survival of the whole.

REVIEW LINK: Olive Films (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE DVD specs:

• Non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen aspect ratio
• English Dolby Digital 1.0 mono audio

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Olive Films is BREAKING GLASS (review)

Rocker Hazel O'Connor stars in the British eighties music cult classic BREAKING GLASS as Kate, a singer who faces the compromises and shady dealings of the music business on her rise from New Wave rocker to mainstream pop star.  Jon Finch, Phil Daniels, and Jonathan Pryce also star.

REVIEW LINK: Olive Films (USA) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

BREAKING GLASS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo

THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER for Olive Films (review)

When Alexander loses his memory in a car crash, his Bulgarian grandfather Bai Min travels to Germany to care for him.  When attempts to jog his grandson's memory fail, Bai Min decides to take Alexander back to Bulgaria with him traveling back home along the path his parents took to escape communist Bulgaria in order to recover his memories.  A Bulgarian/Slovenian/German/Hungarian co-production.

REVIEW LINK: Olive Films (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• Bulgarian/German/Slovenian/Italian/English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Burnt-In English Subtitles

Depardieu rolls like a retiree in MAMMUTH (review)

Gerard Depardieu (GREEN CARD) plays Serge, a slaughterhouse worker who has retired after ten years.  When he finds out that ten of his previous jobs have failed to claim benefits for his retirement, his wife Catherine (Yolande Moreau, THE PACK) sends him off on his 1973 Mammuth motorbike to retrieve the paperwork from a series of defunct and/or shady businesses.  Along the way, Serge runs into the ghost of a dead lover and reconnects (in disturbingly intimate ways) with his cousin and his grown niece.  Of course, when a hooker steals the cellphone that Catherine gave Serge to stay in touch, Catherine and her best friend grab a shovel and a forty-gallon trash bag and go after her.  Isabelle Adjani (QUEEN MARGOT) and Anna Mougalais (MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT) co-star.

REVIEW LINK: Olive Films (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

MAMMUTH DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.83:1 widescreen
• French Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Burnt-In English Subtitles

Olive Films has a case of LOVE EXPOSURE (review)

In Sion Sono's four hour epic, Yu is so eager to please his sin-obsessed priest father that he goes from inventing sins to becoming the master of the art of voyeur photography.  Using ninja techniques, he spins, leaps, and whips underneath womens skirts in search of his very own Virgin Mary. 

REVIEW LINK: Olive Films (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

LOVE EXPOSURE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Permanent English subtitles

Jim Brown and Gene Hackman are in a RIOT!

Olive Films rescues this little-seen William Castle production from the Paramount vaults: RIOT (1969).  Jim Brown (THE DIRTY DOZEN) plays Cully Briston, a prisoner at the Arizona State Prison doing a five year sentence.  He gets caught up in a riot lead by Red Fraker (Gene Hackman) of the isolation block when the sadistic warden is away.  Their initial escape plans fail, so they decide to snowjob the press and the government by making them believe their takeover is a political protest and that they want reform.  Meanwhile, they are tunneling beneath the prison.  The strain of the waiting gets to the various prisoners, who turn on each other (in between drag shows, moonshine benders, and dreams of freedom involving bikini-clad babes).  Briston tries to stay neutral but he finds he has to take decisive action when the warden returns and threatens violent repercussions.

REVIEW LINK: RIOT (Olive Films [USA] Region 1 DVD at DVD Drive-In)

RIOT is my eighth review for the excellent DVD Drive-In site (see also LEGACY, QUEST FOR LOVE, THERE'S NOTHING OUT THERE, PAULA-PAULA, THE SINISTER EYES OF DR. ORLOFF, THE BLACK KLANSMAN, and A LONG RIDE FROM HELL).



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