Blue Underground and Tony Anthony GET MEAN (review)

The Stranger (BLINDMAN's Tony Anthony) returns in the sprawling adventure GET MEAN as the cowboy is hired to provide safe passage for a gypsy princess to her kingdom in Spain and finds himself in the middle of a battle between Moors and Vikings.  Diana Lorys, Mirta Miller, Lloyd Battista, and Raf Baldassare star.

REVIEW LINK: Blue Underground (US) Region ALL Blu-ray/Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

GET MEAN Blu-ray/DVD combo specs:

• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 mono
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 1.0 mono
• Optional English SDH, French, and Spanish subtitles
• Audio Commentary by producer/star Tony Anthony, co-writer/star Lloyd Battista, and executive producer Ronald J. Schneider
• "The Story of the Stranger" interview with producer/star Tony Anthony
• "Looking for Richard" interview with co-writer/star Lloyd Battista
• "Beating a Dead Horse" interview with executive producer Ronald J. Schneider
• "Tony & I" intervew with director Ferdinando Baldi
• Deleted Scenes
• Theatrical Trailer
• French Trailer
• Four Radio Spots
• Poster & Still Gallery 
• Liner Notes Booklet by Spaghetti Western expert Howard Hughes

Scream Factory stares into the WHITE OF THE EYE (review)

Director Donald Cammell (DEMON SEED, PERFORMANCE) proves into the WHITE OF THE EYE with this long neglected eighties serial killer thriller starring David Keith, Cathy Moriarty, Art Evans, Alan Rosenberg, and Alberta Watson.

REVIEW LINK: Scream Factory/Shout! Factory (US) Region A Blu-ray/Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVD Drive-in)

WHITE OF THE EYE Blu-ray/DVD combo specs:

• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Donald Cammell biographer Sam Umland
• "Into the White" interview with cinematographer Larry McConkey
• "Into the Vortex" interview with actor Alan Rosenberg
• "Eye of the Needle" interview with actor Art Evans
• Deleted Scenes (with commentary by Sam Umland)
• Alternate Credit Sequence
• Bleach Bypass Sequences

Cinema Libre tracks ROTOR DR1 (review)

In the world's first drone community collaborated feature film ROTOR DR1, a young man in a post-apocalyptic world comes upon a strange drone that may be a clue to the whereabouts of his long-lost father.  Taking to the road with a runaway, they follow the drone's path and encounter various dangers along the way.

REVIEW LINK: Cinema Libre (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

ROTOR DR1 Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Chad Kapper, writer Megan Ryberg, and actors Christian Kapper & Steve Moses
• Deleted and Alternate Scenes
• Outtakes
• Featurettes:
• "What is Rotor DR1"
• "Drone Race"
• "First/Last Shoot Days"
• "Maya Screen Test"
• "Original Test Footage"
• "Rotor Science/Tech"
• "Rotor Community Concept"
• Timelapse Storyboards
• Trailers
• Previews 

indiepix casts a WHITE SHADOW (review)

The award-winning WHITE SHADOW is the story of Alias, an Albino teenager sent to live with his uncle in Dar Es Salaam after his father is brutally murdered by hunters who supply Albino parts to witch doctors.  He hopes that he is leaving superstition behind in the villages but finds little difference between the outback and the city in the struggle to survive.

REVIEW LINK: IndiePix (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

WHITE SHADOW DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• Swahili Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Burnt-in English subtitles
• Behind the Scenes segments and Deleted Scenes

Arrow Video suffers THE TENDERNESS OF THE WOLVES (review)

Before THE BOOGEYMAN and THE DEVONSVILLE TERROR, Ulli Lommel honed his horror skills in Germany with this arty take on the murders of Fritz Haarmann, the country's first serial killer.  Working with writer/star Kurt Raab and mentor Rainer Werner Fassbinder's stable of talented actors and crew, Lommel presents a vivid and intimate portrait of a murderer and the situations in post-war Germany that enabled him to seduce and murder as many as forty young men.

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video USA (US) Region AB Blu-ray/Region 1/2 DVD Combo (DVD Drive-in)

THE TENDERNESS OF THE WOLVES Blu-ray/DVD combo specs:

• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• German LPCM 1.0 mono
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• German Dolby Digital 1.0
• Optional English subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Ulli Lommel, moderated by Uwe Huber
• Interviews with Ulli Lommel, actor Rainer Will, and cinematographer Jurgen Jurges
• An Appreciation by Stephen Thrower
• Still Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover
• Collector's Booklet

Strand Releasing assumes A BORROWED IDENTITY (review)

When Palestinian Eyad is accepted into a prestigious school in Jerusalem, he encounters bigotry from some of his Jewish classmates but also finds love with Naomi and friendship with Yonatan, a student with Muscular Dystrophy.  As American troops march into Iraq and tensions between Israelis and Palestinians heat up, Eyad finds himself in a smaller version of the conflict as he must choose between his future and the happiness of those he has come to care about.

REVIEW LINK: Strand Releasing (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

A BORROWED IDENTITY DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• Hebrew/Arabic Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English subtitles
• Theatrical Trailer
• Previews 

Wild Eye Releasing tunes into THE HORROR NETWORK (review)

"It's prime time for evil" when Wild Eye Releasing tunes into THE HORROR NETWORK.  Five stories of ultimate horror include a woman on an isolated farm tormented by strange phone calls and things that go bump in the night, a patient who tries to convince his psychiatrist that his sleepwalking is something far more sinister, a deaf girl stalked through the countryside by a mysterious van driver, a mother and daughter's legacy of brutal abuse, and a suburban psycho who could be your next door neighbor (or worse).  From the creators of TRASHOLOGY.

REVIEW LINK: Wild Eye Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

THE HORROR NETWORK DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic widescreen (multiple aspect ratios from 1.76:1 to 2.98:1)
• English/Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
• Burnt-in English subtitles (for the Spanish dialogue)
• Alternate cut of "The Deviant One"
• Image Gallery
• Trailer
• Previews