Celebrity Video asks WHAT REALLY FRIGHTENS YOU (review)

Ghastly Horror Magazine asks three New Yorkers WHAT REALLY FRIGHTENS YOU in this throwback creature feature.  Little do they know that their deepest fears are going to be creeping up on them from under the bed.

REVIEW LINK: Celebrity Video Distribution (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

WHAT REALLY FRIGHTENS YOU DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Audio Commentary by writer/producer/director/editor Richard W. Haines
• Still Gallery
• Trailer

Impulse Pictures unleashes DEBAUCHERY (review)

Nikkatsu rips of Luis Bunuel's BELLE DE JOUR with the explicitly kinky DEBAUCHERY, directed by Hidehiro Ito.  A housewife takes a dayjob at a brothel while her husband is at work, and is ensnared into the dark desires of its clients (including her husband's perverse best friend).

REVIEW LINK: Impulse Pictures (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

DEBAUCHERY DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Liner Notes from Japanese film scholar Jasper Sharp

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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Arrow Video unleashes THE DEADLY SPAWN (review)

Toothy parasites of extraterrestrial origin invade New Jersey suburbia when a meteor crashes to Earth and the slithery creatures are hungry for human flesh!  Only a monster movie-loving kid can save the neighborhood from being eaten!

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video (UK) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE DEADLY SPAWN DVD specs:

• 4:3 window-boxed 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Audio Commentary by producer Ted Bohus
• Audio Commentary by producer Ted Bohus and editor Marc Harwood
• Alternate Opening Sequence
• Comic Prequel
• Outtakes
• Audition Tapes
• Archival TV appearances
• In the Workshop of John Dods
• Theatrical Trailer

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Impulse Pictures files the SCHOOLGIRL REPORT VOLUME 8 (review)

Impulse Pictures presents Ernst Hofbauer's SCHOOLGIRL REPORT 8 "What Parents Must Never Know", in which a troupe of well-developed schoolgirls head out on a two week trip to a country hostel.  Evi hopes to score with the new biology teacher, Gisela tells her friends how she seduced her family's apprentice gardener, Susanne tells of her affair with her father's boss, Annette confesses her unplanned pregnancy (and her planned clandestine meeting with her boyfriend during the trip), Jutta and Evi describe how they hired a stud to seduce their spinster teacher, Gabi describes how she and her cousin Uschi ran into a horny fisherman while skinnydipping, and Inge has some secrets of her own.

REVIEW LINK: Impulse Pictures (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-In)

SCHOOLGIRL REPORT VOLUME 8 DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.66:1 widescreen
• German Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English subtitles

Artificial Eye is terrorized by LOS BASTARDOS (review)

Two illegal immigrants cross the border daily looking for construction work in Southern California.  Today, however, they've been offered a very lucrative business proposition: to kill a single mother.  What should be an easy job goes quickly off kilter as the two men become entranced with the meager luxuries of the suburban home.  The film culminates in a shockingly violent scene that will have audiences jumping.

REVIEW LINK: Artificial Eye (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

LOS BASTARDOS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• Spanish/English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer

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MVM scores CROWS ZERO (review)

Newcomer Genji sets out to conquer the warring factions of Japan's lowest-scoring, most violent boys' school in Takashi Miike's CROWS ZERO, an exciting and audacious adaptation of the popular manga.  He faces off against Katagiri, the Mikami brothers, the hulking Rinda Man, and the Yakuza; building towards an all-out down and dirty final battle on the schoolyard.

REVIEW LINK: MVM (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

CROWS ZERO DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• Japanese Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo