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Showing posts with label Radiance Films. Show all posts
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05 November 2026

Radiance Films explores the PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES in 4K (review)

Before ALIEN, Mario Bava's PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES was the original "haunted house in space" as two ships land on a strange planet to answer a distress call only to confront a supernatural entity intent on taking over their bodies one by one.

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

PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

  • Disc One (4K UltraHD):
    • 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Dolby Vision Widescreen Branched Encodes of the Italian version (89 minutes) and the English version (87 minutes)
    • Italian and English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
    • Optional English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono track of the Orion Video Version featuring a synthesizer score by Kendall Schmidt
    • Optional English Subtitles for the Italian Track and SDH Subtitles for the English Track
    • Audio Commentary on the English Version by Video Watchdog's Tim Lucas 
  • Disc Two (Blu-ray):
    • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen Branched Encodes of the Italian version (89 minutes) and the English version (87 minutes)
    • Italian and English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
    • Optional English Subtitles for the Italian Track and SDH Subtitles for the English Track
    • Audio Commentary on the English Version by Video Watchdog's Tim Lucas
    • "Transmissions from a Haunted World: Mario Bava and the Space Gothic" documentary
    • "Shadow World: Lamberto Bava on Planet of the Vampires"
    • Super 8 Version in Italian with English subtitles or in English
    • "Trailers from Hell with Joe Dante: Planet of the Vampires"
    • "Trailers from Hell with Josh Olson: Planet of the Vampires"
    • Theatrical Trailer
    • Gallery
  • Limited Edition of 3,000 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, and including a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow, an 80-page book featuring new writing by Kyle Anderson, Martyn Conterio, Barry Forshaw, George Daniel Lea and Jerome Reuter plus archival materials, and a 20-page booklet featuring a new translation of Renato Pestriniero’s original short story,

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14 October 2026

Radiance Films' tragic UNE FEMME DOUCE (review)

Robert Bresson strips down the high emotion of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novella of a domineering husband reflecting on his wife's suicide in LA FEMME DOUCE, the debut of actress Dominique Sanda and Bresson's first film in color.

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

UNE FEMME DOUCE Blu-ray specs:

  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
  • French LPCM 1.0 Mono
  • Optional English Subtitles
  • Audio Commentary by film historian Michael Brooke
  • 1969 television interview with director Robert Bresson by composer Pierre Boulez
  • 1985 television interview with actress Dominique Sanda
  • "Over Her Dead Body" visual essay by film historians Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin
  • Comes with a reversible cover. 

Radiance Films checks into NEW ROSE HOTEL (review)

Two corporate espionage agents set up a honey trap to lure away a scientist from a ruthless corporation but love and money make deadly bedfellows in this techno noir from Abel Ferrara starring Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe, and Asia Argento.

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

NEW ROSE HOTEL Blu-ray specs:

  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
  • English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
  • Optional English SDH Subtitles
  • Audio Commentary by screenwriter Christ Zois
  • "Abel Ferrara on NEW ROSE HOTEL" interview
  • "Asia Argento on NEW ROSE HOTEL" interview
  • "Wild and Woolly" interview with actor Willem Dafoe
  • "Beatrice Loayza on NEW ROSE HOTEL" critic interview
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Limited edition of 4,000 copies, presented in and full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings including a reversible sleeve featuring designs based on original promotional materials and booklet featuring new writing on the film by Brad Stevens, author of "Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision". 

05 October 2026

Radiance Films schemes with TEN WOMEN IN BLACK (review)

A handsome television producer gets paranoid when he discovers that ten women in his life want him dead, and one of them is his wife in this bitter comedy drama from Kon Ichikawa.

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

TEN WOMEN IN BLACK Blu-ray specs:

  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
  • Japanese LPCM 1.0 Mono
  • Optional English Subtitles
  • Appreciation by musician Yasuharu Konishi (Pizzicato Five)
  • "The Kon Ichikawa Story" 2006 documentary directed by Shunji Iwai
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • 1997 Re-Release Trailer
  • Limited edition of 3000 copies, with a reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters and a booklet featuring new writing by Yuka Kimbara, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings.

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22 September 2026

Radiance Films exposes THE INUGAMI FAMILY (review)

A quirky private detective is called is hired to look into the mysterious Inugami family who have been turned against one another by the very peculiar terms of their patriarch's will that gives someone or more than one persona motives for murder in this Kon Ichikawa box office hit based on the novel by Seishi Yokomizo.

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

THE INUGAMI FAMILY Blu-ray specs:

  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.50:1 Pillarboxed Widescreen
  • Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
  • Optional English Subtitles
  • Interview with film historian Aaron Girow
  • "The Secret of Kon Ichikawa's Visual Style" 1991 documentary featuring an interview with director Kon Ichikawa
  • "Off Shots: The Day of Filming THE SECRET OF KON ICHIKAWA'S VISUAL STYLE" featurette
  • "Verification: How THE INUGAMI FAMILY  Was Made" behind the scenes retrospective documentary
  • "The Birth of Kosuke Kindaichi" interview with actor Koji Ishizaka
  • "The Path of the 4K Digital Restoration" featurette
  • Theatrical Trailer
  • Theatrical Teaser
  • Includes a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow. 
  • First pressing includes a booklet featuring new writing by Midori Suiren and Akihiko Ito, in a in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, limited to 3000 copies.

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21 September 2026

Radiance Films deciphers THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT in 4K (review)

Based on the labyrinthine gothic novel by Jan Potocki, THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT follows the travails of a French soldier in the Sierra Morena mountains of Spain, his supernatural encounter with a strange pair of sisters, the web of events that prevent him from trying to escape his uncertain fate.

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

THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

  • 2160p24 HEVC Dolby Vision and 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.38:1 Widescreen Presentations of the film as a single feature (184 minutes) or in two parts (103 minutes and 81 minutes)
  • Extras on the Blu-ray copy of the film:
    • "The Saragossa Labyrinth" visual essay by Polish film expert Michael Brooke (69 minutes)
    • "Saragossa" 1998 making-of documentary made for Polish television 
  • Limited edition of 5,000 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 author David Hering and archival writing by Annette Insdorf. 

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02 September 2026

Radiance Films head to Italy for WORLD NOIR VOL. 5 (review)

Radiance Films' fifth WORLD NOIR volume returns to post-war Italy for crime in the seedy underbelly.  In THE BANDIT, matinee idol Amedeo Nazzari returns from a German POW camp to a bombed out Turin and falls in with a gang of robbers lead by Anna Magnani.  In AGAINST THE LAW, Marcello Mastroianni is a young shop worker who smuggles currency on the side and becomes the prime suspect when a man carrying American dollars is found murdered.  In FOUR WAYS OUT, a quartet of desperate men (including Italian horror favorite Paul Muller) rob a football stadium and have to part ways while being chased by the cops, and each finds their own sad end in guilt and betrayal.  Behind the scenes Italian film fans will find the talents of Pietro Germi, Alberto Lattuada, and Federico Fellini early in their careers.

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

WORLD NOIR VOL. 5 Blu-ray specs:

  • Disc One - The Bandit:
    • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.36:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
    • Italian LPCM 1.0 Mono
    • Optional English Subtitles
    • Interview with critic Fabio Melleli
    • Interview with actor Amedeo Nazzari's daughter Evelina Nazzari
    • Conversation between critic Fabio Melleli and Evelina Nazzari
    • Interview with critic Christina Newland 
  • Disc Two - Against the Law:
    • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
    • Italian LPCM 1.0 Mono
    • Optional English Subtitles
    • Interview with Italian film expert Stephen Gundle
    • Interview with critic Manuela Lazic 
  • Disc Three - Four Ways Out:
    • Italian Version (80 minutes):
      • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
      • Italian LPCM 1.0 Mono
      • Optional English Subtitles
      • Italian Theatrical Trailer 
    • English Version (75 minutes):
      • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
      • English LPCM 1.0 Mono
      • Optional English SDH Subtitles
      • English Theatrical Trailer 
    • Interview with author and noir expert Imogen Sarah Smith
    • Interview with critic Mario Sesti 
  • Limited Edition of 3,000 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, reversible sleeves featuring newly designed artworks based on original posters, and an 80-page bound book including new writing from Roberto Curti, Pasquale Iannone, Beatrice Loayza and Farran Smith Nehme, plus archival writing from Mary P. Wood. 

19 August 2026

Radiance Films and Transmission tune in to TWO BOXES: TELEVISED TERROR IN FRANCO'S SPAIN (review)

During General Franco's dictatorship in Spain, the public had veiled concerns of "disapperance" and passive disengagement explored to terrifying ends in two short television projects.  In LA CABINA, a middle-aged businessman becomes a public spectacle when he becomes trapped in a telephone box.  In EL TELEVISOR, a family man finally realizes his dream to own a color television set only to realize that it actually owns him in this short feature from Narcisco Ibanez Serrador (THE HOUSE THAT SCREAMED, WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?).

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

TWO BOXES: TELEVISED TERROR IN FRANCO'S SPAIN Blu-ray specs:

  • La cabina (1972):
    • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
    • Spanish LPCM 1.0 Mono
    • Optional English Subtitles
    • Audio Commentary by writers and film-makers Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton
    • "Jose Luis Garci on La cabina" screenwriter interview
    • "Antonio Mercero Santos on La cabina" location manager interview 
  • El televisor (1974):
    • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
    • Spanish LPCM 1.0 Mono
    • Optional English Subtitles
    • Audio Commentary by critics and horror experts Jonathan Rigby and Kevin Lyons
    • Interview with Spanish film expert Antonio Lazaro-Reboll
    • 1999 Press Conference with Narciso Ibanez Serrandor promoting "El televisor" 
  • Limited edition of 5,000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, including an O-card and reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Justin Coffee, and booklet featuring new writing from Alex Mendibil and Paul Martinovic. 

17 July 2026

Radiance Films avenges THE BETRAYAL (review)

A noble young samurai is asked to take responsibility for an accidental killing to preserve the honor of his clan only to be betrayed by his masters and his friends in this "critical chanbara" from the director of THE DEMON OF MOUNT OE and THE SNOW WOMAN.

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

THE BETRAYAL Blu-ray specs:

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A WOMAN KILLS for Radiance Films (review)

A sadistic female murderess is executed, yet crimes in her style continue to terrify the French public in this unclassifiable "thriller" from political filmmaker Jean-Denis Bonan.

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

A WOMAN KILLS Blu-ray specs:

  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
  • French LPCM 2.0 Mono
  • Optional English Subtitles
  • Audio Commentary by critics Kat Ellinger and Virginie Sélavy
  • Introduction by critic Virginie Sélavy
  • "On the Margin: The Cursed Films of Jean-Denis Bonan" 2015 documentary, updated in 2022
  • Short films by Jean-Denis Bonan
  • Theatrical Trailer

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14 July 2026

Radiance Films gets a nip of VAMPIRE'S KISS (review)

Nicolas Cage goes off the deep end as usual, but this time he thinks he's a vampire in VAMPIRE'S KISS.  Jennifer Beals, Maria Conchita Alonso, Kasi Lemmons, and Elizabeth Ashley also star.

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

VAMPIRE'S KISS 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

  • Disc One (4K UltraHD):
    • 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision/HDR10)
    • English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo
    • Optional English SDH Subtitles
    • Audio Commentary by director Robert Bierman and actor Nicolas Cage
    • Audio Commentary by critics Kim Newman and Nick de Semlyen 
  • Disc Two (Blu-ray):
    • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
    • English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo
    • Optional English SDH Subtitles
    • Audio Commentary by director Robert Bierman and actor Nicolas Cage
    • Audio Commentary by critics Kim Newman and Nick de Semlyen
    • "Robert Bierman on Vampire's Kiss" 2026 director interview
    • "Joseph Minion on Vampire's Kiss" 2026 screenwriter interview
    • "Colin Towns on Vampire's Kiss" 2026 composer interview
    • "The Dumb Waiter" 1979 short film by Robert Bierman
    • Optional Introduction to "The Dumb Waiter" by Robert Bierman
    • Theatrical Trailer
    • Image Gallery 
  • Limited edition of 6,000 copies, presented in rigid box and full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, including a pull-out poster and six lobby-card style postcards, and 40-page perfect bound book featuring new writing from Julia Armfield, Zach Schonfield, and Justin LaLiberty. 

Radiance Films becomes lost in THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM (review)

In this Polish fantasy from Wojciech Has (THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT), a young man travels to visit his "dead" father in a remote sanatorium where time does not behave as it does in the real world.  Entering a surreal dream world, he is assailed by childhood memories entangled with fantastic adventures that may entrap him forever in the world of sleep.  Based on the story collection by Bruno Schulz.

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

THE HOURGLASS SANATORIUM 4K UltraHD/Blu-ray specs:

  • Disc One (4K UltraHD):
    • 2160p24 HEVC 1.85:1 Widescreen (Dolby Vision)
    • Polish DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
    • Optional English Subtitles
    • Audio Commentary by film historian Michael Brooke 
  • Disc Two (Blu-ray):
    • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
    • Polish DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
    • Optional English Subtitles
    • Audio Commentary by film historian Michael Brooke
    • "Accordion" 1947 short film by Wojciech Has
    • 1987 Polish Television interview with production designer Jerzy Skarzynski by filmmaker Jerzy Wójcik
  • Limited edition of 5,000 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 booklet featuring new writing by critic Ela Bittencourt and archival writing from Annette Insdorf. 

13 July 2026

Radiance Films reflects on THE DOUBLE (review)

Jean Sorel, Ewa Aulin, and Lucia Bose form a dysfunctional love triangle in this Moroccan-set erotic thriller from director Romolo Guerrieri.  Silvano Tranquilli, Marilu Tolo, and Giacomo Rossi-Stuart also star.

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

THE DOUBLE Blu-ray specs:

  • 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
  • English and Italian LPCM 1.0 Mono
  • Optional English SDH and English (for Italian) Subtitles
  • Audio Commentary by Video Watchdog's Tim Lucas
  • "Romolo Guerrieri and Eva Aulin on The Double" re-edit of a 2013 interview with director Romolo Guerrieri and a 2017 interview with actress Ewa Aulin
  • "Stephen Thrower on The Double" appreciation by author Stephen Thrower
  • Image Gallery
  • Easter Egg
  • Limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings, reversible sleeve featuring artwork based on original posters, and booklet featuring new writing by author and critic Nathaniel Thompson.

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06 July 2026

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. 

30 June 2026

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. 

23 June 2026

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)

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