Scorpion Releasing blus GRIZZLY (review)

Christopher George, Andrew Prine, and Richard Jaecek star in William Girdler's JAWS-on-land drive-in picture GRIZZLY, one of the highest grossing independent horror films until HALLOWEEN broke the record two years later.  A giant killer grizzly bear is picking off the campers during tourist season at a national park.

REVIEW LINK: Scorpion Releasing (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

GRIZZLY Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
• Filtered and Unfiltered Encodes
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono and 5.1 remix (on both versions)
• Isolated Music and Effects Track (on both versions)
• "Jaws with Claws" featurette
• Q&A with Andrew Prine and David Sheldon
• Katarina's Fun Facts and Triva
• Theatrical Trailer 

Available exclusively from Screen Archives!  Limited to 3,000 copies.

Scream Factory presents THE DUNGEONMASTER/ELIMINATORS (review)

Scream Factory's double feature includes two thriller Empire Pictures productions from the eighties.  In THE DUNGEONMASTER, tech wiz Paul and his fiancee Gwen are transported to a netherworld dimension and challenged by the demonic Mestema to a series of challenges for their freedom.  In ELIMINATORS, a half-human, half-robot mandroid seeks revenge against his creator's murderer.  Denise Crosby, Roy Dotrice, and Andrew Prine star.

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

THE DUNGEONMASTER/ELIMINATORS Blu-ray specs:

• The Dungeonmaster (1984):
• Unrated international RAGEWAR version
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
• Eliminators (1986):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles
• Interview with director Peter Manoogian
• Theatrical Trailer for THE DUNGEONMASTER

Etiquette Pictures tries to CATCH MY SOUL (review)

Singers Richie Havins and Tony Joe White, Season Hubley, Susan Tyrrell, and THE A TEAM's Lance LeGault star in this rare seventies rock opera adaptation of Shakespeare's OTHELLO set in a New Mexico commune.  A Manson-esque Iago tries to drive a wedge between wandering preacher Othello and his bride Desdemona, leading to tragedy and murder.

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

CATCH MY SOUL Blu-ray/DVD combo specs:

• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 mono
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 1.0 mono
• Optional English subtitles
• "Drink the Wine, Eat the Bread" making-of featurette
• "The Deacon Speaks" Interview with actor Tony Joe White
• "True Soul" featurette on cinematographer Conrad Hall
• Promotional Still Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• TV Spot

 

Time Life salutes CPO SHARKEY: SEASON 2 (review)

Don Rickles is back as the foul-tempered CPO SHARKEY in season two of this short-lived sitcom.  The chief petty officer tries to keep his recruits out of trouble, please the new captain, and step up his love life amidst visiting officers, marine brawls, the integration of female officers, and the various schemes of his recruits.

REVIEW LINK: Time Life (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDCompare)

CPO SHARKEY: SEASON 2 DVD specs:

• 22 episodes on three dual-layer DVDs
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• English Closed Captioning
• 2015 Cast Reunion

LionsGate gets infected with COOTIES (review)

Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Jack McBrayer, Nasim Pedrad, and Jorge Garcia star in this horror comedy as beleaguered elementary school teachers whose fourth grade students have been infected with a virus that has turned them into flesh-eating ghouls.  From the co-creators of GLEE and SAW!

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

COOTIES Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English, English SDH, and Spanish subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Elijah Wood, Rainn Wilson, Allison Pill, Ian Brennan, Leigh Whannell, Jonathan Milott, and Cary Murnion
• "Circle, Circle, Dot, Dot. . .Catching Cooties" featurette
• Deleted/Alternate/Extended Scenes
• Gag Reel
• Alternate Ending with Optional Commentary
• "Talking Cooties" featurette
• Digital HD Download Code

Scorpion Releasing yanks its JOYSTICKS (review)

Greydon Clark's naughty and hysterical sex comedy JOYSTICKS hits Blu-ray courtesy of Scorpion Releasing.  When a conservative businessman wants to shut down the local video arcade, the geeks, the girls, and the jocks must band together against his nefarious schemes.

REVIEW LINK: Scorpion Releasing (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

JOYSTICKS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
• Audio Commentary by director Greydon Clark
• Interview with director Greydon Clark
• Theatrical Trailer 

Available exclusively from Screen Archives!

Scorpion Releasing goes WHERE THE BOYS ARE (review)

Flamboyant producer Allan Carr (GREASE) heads to the beach with this eighties sex comedy remake of the sixties film WHERE THE BOYS ARE.  Four East Coast college girls head to Fort Lauderdale for Spring Break in search of parties, sex, and love.  Lorna Luft, Wendy Schaal, Lynn Holly Johnson, Lisa Hartman, Christopher McDonald, and Russell Todd star.

REVIEW LINK: Scorpion Releasing (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

WHERE THE BOYS ARE '84 Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 stereo
• Interviews with actors Russell Todd and Wendy Schaal
• Theatrical Trailer 

Limited to 2000 copies and available exclusively through Screen Archives!