Rooster Teeth colors in RWBY: VOLUME 5 (review)

Team RWBY (pronounced "Ruby") are back to prevent an all-out assault on the kingdom of Mistral in the fifth volume of RWBY.

REVIEW LINK: Rooster Teetch/Cinedigm (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

RWBY: VOLUME FIVE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Directors' Commentary Track
• Crew Commentary Track
• "5 Years of RWBY" featurette
• 14 CRWBY Behind the Episode featurettes
• Photo Gallery
• Trailers

Second Sight explores BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ (review)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic fifteen-hour, fourteen-part adaptation of Alfred Döblin's novel BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ comes to limited edition Blu-ray.  Released from prison after a four year sentence for the murder of his lover, Franz Biberkof struggles to stay honest in Weimar Germany.

REVIEW LINK: Second Sight (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ Blu-ray specs:

• Thirteen episodes and an epilogue on four Blu-ray discs with a fifth bonus disc
• 1080i50 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• German LPCM 1.0 mono
• Forced English subtitles
• "Fassbinder: Love Without Demands" feature-length documentary (107 minutes)
• An Appreciation by Tony Rayns (44 minutes)
• "Fassbinder Phantasmagoria" a visual essay by Daniel Bird
• "Berlin Alexanderplatz: A Mega Movie and Its Story" featurette (65 minutes)
• "The Making of Berlin Alexanderplatz" (44 minutes)
• Restoration Notes by Juliane Lorenz (32 minutes)
• Restoration: Before and After
• Original Broadcast Recaps
• Berlinale 2007 Trailer
• 60-page perfect bound booklet featuring new essay by Cahiers Du Cinema's Stephane du Mesnildot and archive material by Wim Wenders, Thomas Elsasser and Christian Braad Thomsen

Second Run spies on BLACK PETER (review)

Director Milos Forman's feature-length debut is the tale of an aimless sixteen-year-old youth's first uncertain steps towards adulthood in work and love, and the ambiguities and contradictions that come with it.

REVIEW LINK: Second Run (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

BLACK PETER Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• Czech LPCM 2.0 mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Michael Brooke
• Interview with director Milos Forman
• Interview with actress Pavla Martinkova
• Theatrical Trailer
• Booklet by Jonathan Owen

Scream Factory casts THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (review)

The sequel to the RKO hit CAT PEOPLE takes on a more fanciful and dramatic yet still dark spin as Irena's widower husband Oliver worries that his daughter's active imagination and her latest "imaginary friend" may be leading her down a dark path.

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

THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Steve Haberman
• Audio Commentary by film historian Greg Mank featuring recorded comments by actress Simone Simon
• Audio Interview with actress Ann Carter
• "Lewton's Muse: The Dark Eyes of Simone Simon" featurette
• Theatrical Trailer
• CAT PEOPLE (1942) Trailer

Arrow Video investigates THE CASE OF THE SCORPION'S TAIL (review)

In Sergio Martino's follow-up to THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH, George Hilton, Anita Strindberg, and Evelyn Scott investigate THE CASE OF THE SCORPION'S TAIL.  A widow whose husband died under mysterious circumstances travels to Athens to collect an insurance payout pursued by an insurance investigator, her husband's scheming mistress, and a knife-wielding killer slicing his way through the suspects.  Alberto de Mendoza, Janine Reynaud, Luis Barboo, and Luigi Pistilli co-star.


REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video (US) Region A/B Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

THE CASE OF THE SCORPION'S TAIL Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 widescreen
• English and Italian LPCM 1.0 mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles for the English dub and English subtitle for the Italian track
• Audio Commentary by screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi (in Italian with English subtitles)
• New Interview with actor George Hilton
• New Interview with director Sergio Martino
• Appreciation by film historian Mikel J. Koven
• Audio Essay by film historian Troy Howarth
• Image Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover
• FIRST PRESSING ONLY: an illustrated collector s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Rachael Nisbet and Howard Hughes, and a biography of star Anita Strindberg by Peter Jilmstad.

Scorpion Releasing conducts HUMAN EXPERIMENTS (review)

When a short-tempered singer-songwriter stumbles upon a multiple murder, she is railroaded through the justice system and given a life sentence at a women's correctional facility where she catches the eye of a psychiatrist who conducts extreme rehabilitation experiments.  Linda Haynes, Geoffrey Lewis, and Ellen Travolta star.

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

HUMAN EXPERIMENTS Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
• Audio Commentary by director Gregory Goodell
• Katarina's Nightmare Theater mode
• Theatrical Trailers
• Trailers
• Reversible Cover
• Slipcover

The Blu-ray edition is exclusive to Ronin Flix.  A DVD edition is available from other retailers.

Code Red makes a date with EROTIC NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD (review)

Laura Gemser, George Eastman, and Mark Shannon encounter the living dead while boinking on a remote cursed island in Joe D'Amato's answer to the Italian zombie flicks of the eighties with EROTIC NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD.

REVIEW LINK: Code Red (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

EROTIC NIGHTS OF THE LIVING DEAD Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono
• Interview with actor Mark Shannon
• Alternate Footage
• Laura Gemser Photo Gallery
• Trailers

This limited edition of the uncut hardcore version is an exclusive from DiabolikDVD.