Shameless Screen Entertainment enters THE BEYOND (Review)

The restoration of a New Orleans hotel built atop one of the seven gateways to hell unleashes undead fury in Lucio Fulci's THE BEYOND.


REVIEW LINK: Shameless Screen Entertainment (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

THE BEYOND Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Option to watch the entire film with the prologue in sepia, black and white, color, or sepia on color
• Audio Commentary by actors Catriona McColl and David Warbeck
• Audio Commentary by cinematorapher Sergio Salvati
• "Emily's Eyes" interview with actress Cinzia Monreale
• "Arachnaphobia" interview with actor Michele Mirabella
• "Murder, They Wrote - Working with Lucio Fulci" interview with screenwriter Giorgio Mariuzzo
• "Lucio Fulci on the Set of DEMONIA"
• Prologue Comparison
• Start-up Trailers

Shameless investigates THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS (review)

Jennifer and fellow model Marilyn move into a modern apartment building into the unit where the previousy tenant was murdered.  It turns out that is not the only murder that has plagued the building, and Jennifer soon wonders if it is her violent ex, her new lover, or one of her neighbors that is stalking her through the corridors in this giallo starring George Hilton and Edwige Fenech.

REVIEW LINK: Shameless Screen Entertainment (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Interview with actor George Hilton
• Interview with actress Paola Quattrini

Shameless Screen Entertainment takes a bite out of CANNIBAL FEROX (review)

Umberto Lenzi's gory cinematic endurance test CANNIBAL FEROX hits Blu-ray courtesy of Grindhouse Releasing.  When two drug dealers rip off the mob, they flee New York to Colombia in search of emeralds and run afoul of cannibals.  Also on the menu are an NYU graduate student, her brother, and their hot-to-trot friend.  "Too disgusting to watch... Too bizarre to resist!"

REVIEW LINK: Shameless Screen Entertainment (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

CANNIBAL FEROX Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• “A Taste of the Jungle” last interview with Umberto Lenzi
• “Hell in the Jungle" interview with actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice
• Restoration Demo
• Photo Gallery
• Reversible cover
• BARF: Vomit Bag

Shameless Screen Entertainment scales the MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD (review)

Ursula Andress is undressed yet again when she ventures into the jungle in search of THE MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD when her husband goes missing.  Stacey Keach and Claudio Cassinelli also star in this Sergio Martino adventure.  NOTE: This British release has been softened of footage of animal violence that violates British law while the human violence and sexuality are uncensored (including a cannibal orgy not seen theatrically).

REVIEW LINK: Shameless Screen Entertainment (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

MOUNTAIN OF THE CANNIBAL GOD Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 mono
• Introduction with Sergio Martino
  "Cannibal Nightmare: Return to the Mountain of the Cannibal God" documentary
• “Director Sergio Martino on on the Controversial Scenes He Shot ... and on the Scenes That He Maybe Didn’t Shoot at All!” featurette
• Theatrical Trailer
• Italian Credits
• Exclusive, Limited Edition Serial-Numbered O card
• Cannibal Paradise, a snakes and ladders inspired board game on a card folded inside the case
• Reversible inlay sleeve with new and original poster artwork

Shameless dismembers TORSO (review)

Sergio Martino anticipates the slasher with the giallo TORSO in which the coeds of the University of Perugia's summer art program are terrorized by a ski-masked killer who strangles and mutilates his victims.  Suzy Kendall, Tina Aumont, Luc Merenda, and John Richardson star.

REVIEW LINK: Shameless Screen Entetainment (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

TORSO Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 2.0 mono
• Full English subtitles for the Italian track or English subtitles for the Italian-only sequences on the English track
• "Dismembering TORSO" interview director with Sergio Martino
• Reversible Cover

Shameless Screen Entertainment discovers THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH (review)

Sergio Martino's landmark giallo that crowned George Hilton and Edwige Fenech as the king and queen of the genre comes to Blu-ray.  Returning to Vienna with her diplomat husband, Julie Wardh finds that she has more to worry about than the attentions of a sadomasochistic ex-lover when she may be the next victim of a razor-wielding sex fiend.

REVIEW LINK: Shameless Screen Entertainment (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 2.0 mono
• Optional English subtitles
• "Dark Fears Behind the Door" featurette with director Sergio Martino, producer Luciano Martino, writer Ernesto Gastaldi, and stars Edwige Fenech and George Hilton
• "Thrills, Chills, and Cleavage" interview with director Sergio Martino
• "The Genesis of Mrs. Wardh" visual essay on Edwige Fenech
• Fact Track by Justin Harrries 
• Reversible Cover
• Shameless Numbered Edition

Shameless is ALMOST HUMAN (review)

Tomas Milian goes berserk as a small time hood who organizes the kidnapping of an heiress in Umberto Lenzi's brutal crime thriller ALMOST HUMAN.  Also starring Henry Silva, Anita Strindberg, and Ray Lovelock.

REVIEW LINK: Shameless Screen Entertainment (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

ALMOST HUMAN Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 2.0 mono
• Optional English subtitles
• New Interview with director Umberto Lenzi
• "Milian Unleashed" archival interview with actor Tomas Milian
• "Like a Beast... Almost" archival interviews with director Umberto Lenzi, screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi, and actor Ray Lovelock
• Shameless Trailer Reel

Shameless paints ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK (review)

They're coming to get you in ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK, Sergio Martino's occult-tinged giallo starring Edwige Fenech as a woman who lost her unborn child in a car accident and has been having hallucinations of a knife-wielding stalker since them.  When her boyfriend cannot help her, a sexy neighbor takes her to a Satanic cult to help rid her of her fears, but there is a price to be paid.  George Hilton, Mariana Malfati, Susan Scott, Julian Ugarte, Jorge Rigaud, and Ivan Rassimov also star.

REVIEW LINK: Shameless Screen Entertainment (US) Region B Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

ALL THE COLOURS OF THE DARK Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 2.0 mono
• Optional English subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Diabolique Magazine's Kat Ellinger and Samm Deighan
• "Dark is the Color" interview with Sergio Martino (32 mins)
• "Doors" 2012 short film by Michele De Angelis 
• "Shameless Trailer Reel" short compilation of shots from various Shameless releases
• Start-up Trailers

DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE is Shameless' THE CEMETERY MAN (review)

Long before he hooked up with that vampire Madonna, Rupert Everett (THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS) was rekilling the living dead as Francesco Dellamorte, the Cemetery Man in Michele Soavi's fourth film DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE.  The residents of the Buffalora cemetery don't stay dead for long and someone has to clean up the mess once they've taken bullets and shoves to the brain.  Anna Falchi, Barbara Cupisti, and Francois Hadji Lazaro co-star.

REVIEW LINK: Shameless Screen Entertainment (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE - THE CEMETERY MAN DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.67:1 widescreen
• English and Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo audio tracks
• Optional English subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Michele Soavi and writer Gianni Romoli (with optional English subtitles)
• Theatrical Trailer
• Photo Gallery
• Shameless Trailer Park
• Liner Notes Booklet by Alan Jones

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Shameless about FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET (review/comparison)

Shameless give their special treatment to their restoration of Dario Argento's long unavailable third giallo FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET in its first UK DVD and Blu-Ray release.  Michael Brandon (DEADLY MESSAGES) is a drummer who has been stalked for the last few weeks by a man in sunglasses.  One night he confronts the man and accidentally kills him.  Unfortunately, a witness in a strange mask photographs the killing and starts tormenting him with notes threatening his death.  As people start dying around him, he must discover the identity of the killer (and what it all has to do with a strange dream that may be a premonition of his own death).  Mimsy Farmer also stars.  Music by Ennio Morricone.

BLU-RAY CAPS ADDED!

REVIEW LINK: Shameless Screen Entertainment (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)*

*DVD comparison with Retrofilm and MYA DVD editions.

FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English and Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 mono audio tracks
• Optional English subtitles
• Introduction by Luigi Cozzi
• "The Art of Murder" 45 minute interview with Luigi Cozzi
• English Trailer
• Italian Trailer
• English Opening and Closing Credits
• Still Gallery

Shameless revisits THE HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK (review)

David Hess escaped the LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT and headed for THE HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK for another rapist rampage.  Shameless Screen Entertainment have resurrected another Ruggero Deodato classic for special edition Region 0 PAL DVD.  Rejected by the censors for its theatrical release in 1981 and cut by nearly twelve minutes for its video release, THE HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK arrives on DVD with 42 seconds scissored by the BBFC.  Extras include interviews with Ruggero Deodato and David Hess, as well as video footage of Deodato and actor Giovanni Lombardo Radice meeting with the dreaded BBFC.  Fans of the film may want to snap this one up for the isolated score track, the better to hear Riz Ortolani's funky disco tunes.  Christian Borromeo (TENEBRAE), Annie Belle (EMANUELLE IN EGYPT), Lorraine de Selle (CANNIBAL FEROX), and Giovanni Lombardo Radice (CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD) also star.  See it with someone you loathe!


REVIEW LINK: Shameless Screen Entertainment (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE HOUSE ON THE EDGE OF THE PARK DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen transfer
• English and Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 mono audio
• Optional English subtitles
• Isolated Music Score Track
• Interviews with Ruggero Deodato and David Hess
• Ruggero Deodato and Giovanni Lombardo Radice face the BBFC
• David Hess on the Cutting of HOUSE
• Theatrical Trailer

Shameless visits the Green Inferno in CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (review)

Venture back into the Green Inferno with Ruggero Deodato's new edit of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, the infamous 1979 Italian cannibal film that inspired THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and more (although none have come close to the impact of Deodato's grisly, grueling film).  Robert Kerman (EATEN ALIVE) plays an anthropologist who travels deep into the jungle to discover what happened to four missing American filmmakers.  What he discovers is more insidious than a little flesh-eating.  Shameless' edition features Deodato's original version* as well as a new edit that reduces the amount of animal cruelty that the director himself dislikes.

*the original version has been cut by the BBFC by 15 seconds

REVIEW LINK: Shameless Screen Entertainment (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (Shameless Director Edition) DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen transfer
• English and Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 mono tracks
• Original Version* and New Edit
• English introduction by Ruggero Deodato
• Introduction to the New Edit by Ruggero Deodato
• Film and Be Damned: interview with actor Carl G. York and director Ruggero Deodato
• The Long Road Back From Hell: featurette with Kim Newman, Professor Julian Petley, Professor Mary Wood, actor Carl G. Yorke, actress Francesca Ciardi, and director Ruggero Deodato
• Theatrical Trailer
• Shameless Trailer Park
• Easter Egg
• Reversible Cover