Arrow Video USA vents its BLOOD RAGE (review)

The Flordia-lensed eighties slasher BLOOD RAGE hits Blu-ray for all to appreciate the thoroughly splashy gore of Ed French that was slashed down by the MPAA theatrically and too dark to see on the home video versions ("That's not cranberry juice...").  Louise Lasser stars.

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video USA (US) Region ALL Blu-ray/Region 0 NTSC DVD combo (DVD Drive-in)

BLOOD RAGE Blu-ray/DVD combo specs:

• Limited Three Disc (2 Blu-ray, 1 DVD) Edition
• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 stereo
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Uncut Video Version from a 2K scan of the original negative
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director John Grissmer
• Interview with star Mark Soper
• Interview with star Louise Lasser
• Interview with actor Ted Raimi
• Interview with producer/actress Marianne Kanter
• Interview with effects artist Ed French
• "Return to Shadow Woods" locations visit
• Video Title Sequence
• Photo Gallery
• Limited Third Disc (Blu-ray) featuring the alternate R-rated cut NIGHTMARE AT SHADOW WOODS, a composite cut with footage unique to NIGHTMARE AT SHADOW WOODS incorporated into the uncut version, and a rare outtakes reel
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Marc Schoenbach
• Fully-illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Joseph A. Ziemba, author of BLEEDING SKULL! A 1980s Trash-Horror Odyssey

Vinegar Syndrome delves into CORRUPTION (review)

Singular golden age porn auteur Roger Watkins' dark and fantastical CORRUPTION hits Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome on Black Friday!  Jamie Gillis stars as a businessman who has sold his soul for power only to realize how little control he has over his destiny when he is double-crossed by one of his underlings.  George Payne, Michael Gaunt, Kelly Nichols, and Vanessa del Rio also star.

REVIEW LINK: Vinegar Syndrome (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

CORRUPTION Blu-ray specs:

• 2K scan from the original camera negatives
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0
• Interview with cinematographer Larry Revene
• Theatrical Trailer
• Pressbook Gallery
• The Easter Egg to End All Easter Eggs!

Slasher Video hunts DEADLY PREY for THE DEADLIEST PREY (review)

REVIEW LINK: Slasher Video/Olive Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

DEADLY PREY Blu-ray specs:

• 1080i60 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
• Interview with make-up artist Jack Hojohn
• Photo Gallery
• Outtakes
• Trailer

THE DEADLIEST PREY Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereo
• Interviews with actor Ted Prior, actor David Prior, actor David Campbell, and actor Fritz Matthews

Well Go USA presents PARTISAN (review)

Vincent Cassel stars in this slow-burn thriller about a young boy who grows up in a mysterious compound and is trained to be an assassin at the age of eleven by a mentor/father figure whose benevolent facade hides deep-seated rage and violence.

REVIEW LINK: Well Go USA (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

PARTISAN Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Interviews with director Ariel Kleiman and actor Vincent Cassel
• Theatrical Trailer
• Previews

Film Movement under a FULL MOON IN PARIS (review)

Eric Rohmer's romantic comedy FULL MOON IN PARIS comes to Blu-ray from Film Movement.  Having transitioned smoothly from her parents' home to the homes of her boyfriends (falling for next one while falling out of love with the previous), Louise has never experienced loneliness.  Feeling trapped in the suburbs, she announces to her boyfriend Remi that she is not going to rent her apartment but plans to sleep there on the weekends after partying in Paris.  As she tries to assuage his jealousy, her own is peaked by guilt and suspicion.  Pascale Ogier, Fabrice Luchini, and Tcheky Karyo star.

REVIEW LINK: Film Movement (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

FULL MOON IN PARIS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• French LPCM 2.0 mono
• Optional English subtitles
• Interview with actress Pascale Ogier
• 2015 and original theatrical trailers
• Liner Notes Booklet by David Thomson

88 Films enrolls in SPLATTER UNIVERSITY (review)

The Troma pickup SPLATTER UNIVERSITY hits Blu-ray in the UK courtesy of 88 Films.  Forced to retake sociology after their "stupid teacher got murdered" the previous semester, the students of St. Trinian's discover that their are worse things than failing midterms when a knife-wielding killer starts slicing his way through student bodies and the faculty.

REVIEW LINK: 88 Films (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SPLATTER UNIVERSITY Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
• English LPCM 2.0 mono
• Audio Commentary by director/editor Richard W. Haines
• "Splatter Scholar" interview with slasher expert Justin Kerswell
• Theatrical Trailer
• TV Spot
• Bonus feature: What Really Frightens You

Second Run hails ALL MY GOOD COUNTRYMEN (review)

Vojtech Jasny's banned 1969 masterpiece presents a series of scenes of country life after WWII as a group of friends find their relationships ruptured by the onset of communism with opportunism and vindictiveness leading to abuse, arrests, and murder.

REVIEW LINK: Second Run DVD (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

ALL MY GOOD COUNTRYMEN DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.37:1 fullscreen
• Czech Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English subtitles
• Short film "Bohemian Rhapsody"
• Liner Notes Booklet by Peter Hames