Unearthed Films summons up BAKEMONO (review)

A dank, dark Airbnb hosts various Tokyo visitors and a flesh-eating demon in this practical effects-loaded indie gore flick.

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BAKEMONO Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.90:1 Widescreen
• English/Japanese LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles (foreign dialogue only) or full English SDH subtitles
• "Making the Practical FX: Bringing a Gruesome Monster to Life"
• "The Dark Side of Tokyo: The Meaning Behind the Film"
• "Principal Photography"
• "Bakemono Unleashed: Reactions and Surprises"
• German festival Q and A with director Doug Roos
• Photo Gallery
• Teaser #1
• Teaser #2
• Trailer for THE SKY HAS FALLEN
• First Pressing Slipcover

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Unearthed Films resurrects the LEGION OF THE DEAD (review)

A pair of idiots, two bumbling brother hit men, and a waitress face become involved with a fallen angel's attempt to take over the world with an army of the dead in Olaf Ittenbach's LEGION OF THE DEAD.

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

LEGION OF THE DEAD Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - Producer's Cut:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Olaf Ittenbach and composer Mel Lewis
• Making-of
• Deleted Scenes
• Outtakes
• Festival Premieres
• Photo Gallery
• Video Trailer
• Alternate Trailer
• U.S. Video Trailer 
• Disc Two - Director's Cut:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo (with German audio for restored scenes)
• Optional English Subtitles (for German scenes only) or full English SDH Subtitles 
• Reversible cover
• First pressing slipcover. 

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Unearthed Films hears the voices of THE UGLY (review)

Summoned to do an independent assessment of a serial killer, psychologist Karen Schumaker tries to get to the truth behind the crimes of charming Simon Cartwright and the delusion or supernatural force he calls THE UGLY in this nineties film festival favorite from New Zealand.

REVIEW LINK: Unearthed Films (U.S.) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE UGLY Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 4.0 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English and English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by actors Rebecca Hobbs and Paolo Rotondo, moderated by Mondo Digital's Nathaniel Thompson
• 1997 New Zealand Radio Interview with writer/director Scott Reynolds
• Scott Reynolds Short Films:
• Theatrical Trailer (in 2.0 stereo and 4.0)
• Photo Gallery
• Visual Essay by Howard S. Berger
• Reversible Cover
• Five-page booklet by Jason Jenkins
• The first pressing includes a slipcover.

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Unearthed Films sews the GARDEN OF LOVE (review)

The only survival of a commune massacre, Rebecca grows up with amnesia of the event until the ghost of her father starts beckoning her to help him find their killers so they can tear them limb-from-limb in this German splatterfest by Olaf Ittenbach (THE BURNING MOON).

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GARDEN OF LOVE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• "Making GARDEN OF LOVE" effects documentary
• "Behind the Scenes of GARDEN OF LOVE" documentary
• Original Opening
• Outtakes
• Theatrical Trailer
• The first pressing includes a slipcover.

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Unearthed Films has the need for FEED (review)

Before he was a rom-com hunk and the HAWAII FIVE-0 reboot's McGarrett, Alex O'Loughlin was a serial killer with a very unusual fetish in the Australian thriller FEED from the director of LAWNMOWER MAN and VIRTUOSITY.

REVIEW LINK: Unearthed Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

FEED Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English and English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Brett Leonard
• Alternate U.S. Cut of the Film with Temp Mix or Mono Audio Options
• Deleted Scenes (with optional commentary by director Brett Leonard)
• Alternate Ending (with optional commentary by director Brett Leonard)
• Additional Deleted and Extended Scenes
• Outtakes
• Behind the Scenes Footage
• Infomercial
• Final Day Interview with director Brett Leonard
• Interview with actor Alex O'Loughlin
• Interview with producer Melissa Beauford
• Interview with actor Jack Thompson
• "Feed in Philadelphia: The North American Premiere"
• Photo Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Comes with a slipcover.

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Unearthed Films visits the VILLAGE OF DOOM (review)

An introverted young man is further ostracized in his village when he contracts tuberculosis and cannot serve in the Japanese army and decides to make his village his own battlefield in this true crime account from Daiei.

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VILLAGE OF DOOM Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Asian film experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema 
• "Dark Asia with Megan: Case #57 Japan's Darkest Night, Tsuyama Massacre" interview with true crime podcaster Megan Lee 
• Promotional Gallery 
• Theatrical Trailer Comes with a slipcover.

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Unearthed Films is hot for teacher in HOMEWORK (review)

"Every young man needs a teacher" and who better than desperate housewife Joan Collins in the eighties sex comedy HOMEWORK.  Seventeen-year-old Tommy's grades are slipping and he's seeing a shrink because he believes he's the only virgin left in school.  His girlfriend is so obsessed with making the swim team that Tommy often ends up spending more time with her mother (Collins); which doesn't seem to be out of the norm since pal Ralphie and exchange student Gilles both have their eyes on flighty new French teacher Ms. Jackson.  When Tommy and his friends hit upon the idea to form a rock band, they find their big chance at frame threatened by the consequences of their own sexual urges.  Carrie Snodgrass (THE FURY), Lee Purcell (NECROMANCY), and Wings Hauser (THE WIND) also star.

REVIEW LINK: Unearthed Films (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

HOMEWORK Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono and Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English and English SDH Subtitles
• Interview with producer Max Rosenberg
• Promotional Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Trailers
• First pressing slipcover
  

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Unearthed Films rescues THE ABANDONED (review)

Marie comes to Russia in search of her past which has been shrouded in legal bureaucracy and learns that she has inherited a family farm that has been uninhabited for forty years since the murder of her mother.  When she arrives at the old farm, she discovers that ghosts of the past are very much still active and planning a deadly homecoming in the feature debut of Nacho Cerda.

REVIEW LINK: Unearthed Films (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE ABANDONED Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• "Circling Back" interviews with co-writer/director Nacho Cerdà, co-writer Karim Hussein, and co-writer Richard Stanley 
• "The Making of THE ABANDONED" 
• "In the THE ABANDONED's Den" interview with co-writer/director Nacho Cerdà 
• "Nacho Cerdà: Facing Death" 
• "The Little Secrets of Nacho Cerdà" 
• "When Buck Meets Cerdà: A Dialogue Between Friends" 
• Alternate Cuts 
• Alternate Endings 
• Deleted and Extended Scenes 
• Outtakes 
• Photo Gallery 
• Storyboards 
• Trailers 
• Bonus Trailers 
• BD-ROM: Storyboard Collection

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Unearthed Films gets brutal with MEXICO BARBARO II (review)

Nine directors present eight short horror films based on Mexican folklore and urban legends involving vengeance from beyond the grave, familial dysfunction, devil worship, and things that go bump in the night.

REVIEW LINK: Unearthed Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

MEXICO BARBARO II Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Featurettes: 
• "La Leyenda De Juan Soldado" 
• "Bolas De Fuego" 
• "Vitriol" Behind the Scenes and Still Gallery 
• "No Te Duermas" 
• "Exodoncia" 
• Stills Gallery 
• Theatrical Trailer 

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Unearthed Films tenses up with FULL BODY MASSAGE (review)

When her regular masseur cancels, a successful art dealer spends a challenging evening with a replacement whose focus on spiritual healing spurs erotic intimacy in Nicolas Roeg's Showtime TV movie starring Mimi Rogers and Bryan Brown.

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FULL BODY MASSAGE Blu-ray specs:

• Theatrical Version:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English and English SDH Subtitles
• TV Version:
• 720p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English and English SDH Subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers 

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Unearthed Films' skin crawls with THE SOUND OF SUMMER (review)

THE SOUND OF SUMMER during the hot months of June through August in Japan are the song of cicadas, but they are starting to get under the skin of a young coffee server (quite literally) in this body horror film from the director of THE ROPE MAIDEN.

REVIEW LINK: Unearthed Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE SOUND OF SUMMER Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Behind The Scenes
• Tokyo Talkshow with the creators of "The Sound of Summer" moderated by loud and legendary director Shozin Fukui
• Japanese Premiere
• Theatrical Trailer
• Trailer for DIFFICULTY BREATHING
   

Unearthed Classics slithers with CALAMITY OF SNAKES (review)

When a ruthless developer kills thousands of snakes and builds a luxury apartment building over them, a vengeful boa leads even more of his slithery buddies to crash the opening party in this gory Taiwanese mix of THE TOWERING INFERNO and JAWS.

REVIEW LINK: Unearthed Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

CALAMITY OF SNAKES Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.39:1 Widescreen presentations of the theatrical version (86 minutes) and a cruelty-free version (76 minutes)
• Cantonese, Mandarin, and English LPCM 2.0 Mono Audio Options
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historians Nathan Hamilton and Brad Slaton
• Standard Definition Presentation of the English Export Version (87 minutes)
• "From Shaw to Snakes: The Venom and Violence of Early Chinese Language Horror Cinema" feature-length documentary
• "Reptilian Recollections: Lin Kuang-Yung in Conversation with Chui-Yi Chung" interview
• Alternate Credits
• Gallery
• Collector's Slipcover
  

Unearthed Classics witnesses THE GRAND TOUR (review)

ARACHNOPHOBIA's Jeff Daniels and JURASSIC PARK's Ariana Richards are a father and daughter who become mixed up in a time traveling adventure from the director of PITCH BLACK and THE ARRIVAL.

REVIEW LINK: Unearthed Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THE GRAND TOUR Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• "Lost to Time: The Cannes Promo" interview with video editor Ed McNichol
• "Timescape" Title Sequence
• Production Stills Gallery
• Poster Mock-up and Artwork Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers
• Reversible Cover
• Slipcover
  

Unearthed Films' parties by INVITATION ONLY (review)

A chauffeur crashes a high society party in hopes of networking but discovers that he is the guest of honor in a bizarre rite of initiation in the Taiwanese gore flick INVITATION ONLY.

REVIEW LINK: Unearthed Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

INVITATION ONLY Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• Mandarin DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Spanish DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English Subtitles
• Behind the Scenes
• Photo Gallery
• Mandarin and Spanish Theatrical Trailers
• Bonus Trailers
  

Unearthed Films puts CHRISTMAS CRUELTY under the tree (review)

A trio of bar buddies are planning anti-Christmas festivities this year, but their party is about to be crashed by a psychopath in a Santa suit in this Norwegian indie gorefest.

REVIEW LINK: Unearthed Films (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

CHRISTMAS CRUELTY Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• Norwegian DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by co-director Per-Ingvar Tomren and cinematographer Raymond Volle
• Watch-A-Long Audio Track with Flesh Wound Horror
• "How Cruelty Changed Our Lives" retrospective interviews
• Interview with fan Morten Haagensen
• Press Conference
• Bloopers
• "Tradisjon" short film
• Teaser Trailer
• Photo Gallery
• 
  

Unearthed Films gets caught in EVIL DEAD TRAP 2 (Review)

A lonely and plain projectionist spends her nights stalking and murdering prostitutes, but she is also being haunted by a ghostly child in EVIL DEAD TRAP 2.

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EVIL DEAD TRAP 2: HIDEKI Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• Japanese LPCM 2.0 Stereo and Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Photo Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers
  

Unearthed Classics resurrects PREMUTOS: THE FALLEN ANGEL (review)

Before Satan, Premutos was the first fallen angel.  He had the power to create life, but only from the flesh of the dead.  When a young man discovers a buried book, he discovers that he is the son of Premutos, destined to bring his father back to Earth and unleash an army of the dead in Olaf Ittenbach's German gorefest PREMUTOS: THE FALLEN ANGEL.

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PREMUTOS: THE FALLEN ANGEL Blu-ray specs:

• The Director's Cut:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• German DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
  
• Original Cut:
• 480i60 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• German or English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
  
• Making-of documentary
• "Olaf Ittenback: The Early Years" documentary
• Trailer
• Bonus Trailers
  
• Bonus Soundtrack CD
• Reversible Cover
• Slipcover
  

Unearthed Classics revels in TOKYO DECADENCE (review)

A young prostitute's attempts to gain control of her life after a visit to a fortune teller leads her to sexual degradation and near-madness in Ryu Murakami's TOKYO DECADENCE.

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TOKYO DECADENCE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• Japanese and English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Promotional Featurette
• Japanese Theatrical Trailer
• German Theatrical Trailer
• Trailers
  

Actresses duel to the death in Unearthed Films' 2LDK (review)

A pair of actresses sharing an apartment are after the same role and the same man in Yukihiko Tsutsumi's "duel to the death" 2LDK.

REVIEW LINK: Unearthed Films/MVD Visual (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

2LDK Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by actresses Maho Nonami and Eiko Koike
• "Making of 2LDK" documentary
• "Duel Production Briefing"
• Video Message for the Theater Audience
• Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival Interviews
• Premiere Screening Interviews
• Screening at Kudan Kaikan Interviews
• Photo Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Trailers
  

Unearthed Films starts a FAMINE (review)

20 students, 20 hours, 20 horrible ways to die for the student body of Sloppy Secondary in this Canadian slasher from the late Ryan Nicholson (COLLAR).

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FAMINE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS 5.1
• Trailer
• Still Gallery
• Bonus Trailers