Kino Lorber visits PITTSBURGH with The Duke (Review)

Coal miners John Wayne and Randolph Scott realize their greatest ambitions and fall in love and out of their friendship when they meet Marlene Dietrich in the Universal melodrama PITTSBURGH.

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

PITTSBURGH Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Animated Image Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers

Vinegar Syndrome and Sam HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN (review)

Rowdy Roddy Piper stars in his other eighties cult film as Sam Hell, a scavenger in the wastelands of a nuclear war that have left much of the population sterile.  When it is discovered that he is very potent, he is wrangled into a government operation to infiltrate Frogtown where Captain Toady is holding a harem of fertile babes.

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

HELL COMES TO FROGTOWN Blu-ray/DVD Combo specs:

• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Remastered Stereo and 1.0 Mono
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 2.0 Remastered Stereo and 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Donald G. Jackson and writer Randall Frakes
• ”Mean and Green" interview with writer Randall Frakes
• "Grappling with Green Gargantuans" interview with actor Roddy Piper
• "Creature Feature Creator" interview with effects wizard Steve Wang
• "Amphibian Armageddon" interview with actor Brian Frank
• Alternate Scene
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover

 The first 3,000 copies ordered directly from Vinegar Syndrome
come with a special limited edition V-shaped splitcover designed by Earl Kessler Jr.

Vinegar Syndrome pleads LET MY PUPPETS COME (review)

In the first erotic puppet feature film from the makers of the first erotic puppet theater show KUMQUATS, the three CEOs of a company decide to make some quick money producing a porn film when mobster Mr. Big comes to collect on his loan.

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

LET MY PUPPETS COME Blu-ray/DVD Combo specs:

• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historians Heatehr Drain and Samm Deighan
• Audio Conversation with puppeteer and puppet designer James Racioppi, moderated by film historian Casey Scott
• Rare audio from a production of the musical “Kumquats”, the inspiration for Let My Puppets Come"
• Audio Conversation with "Kumquats" director Nicolas Coppola, moderated by film historian Casey Scott
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover

The first 2,000 copies ordered directly from Vinegar Syndrome come with a special limited edition embossed slipcover designed by Earl Kessler Jr.

Vinegar Syndrome details 9 LIVES OF A WET PUSSYCAT (review)

Before Abel Ferrera became THE DRILLER KILLER he put a different kind of drill to a woman's psyche with a mob-financed porn film about a witch's supernatural stalking of her lesbian lover.

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

9 LIVES OF A WET PUSSY Blu-ray/DVD combo specs:

• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• DVD:
• 16:9 anamorphic 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commenary by film historian Samm Deighan
• Theatrical Trailer
• Reversible Cover

The first 2,000 copies ordered directly from Vinegar Syndrome
come with a special limited edition die-cut X slipcover designed by Kristopher M. Knight.

Arrow Video witnesses WHO SAW HER DIE? (review)

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE's George Lazenby plays an artist working in Venice whose young daughter is the latest victim of a killer stalking red-haired girls.  As he carries out his own investigation, he discovers the suspects are much closer than he expected.  Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi, and Dominique Boschero also star.

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

WHO SAW HER DIE? Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• English or Italian Credits and Text Inserts
• English and Italian LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English subtitles (for Italian dub) and English SDH (for English dub)
• Audio Commentary by film historian Troy Howarth
• "I Saw Her Die" interview with director Aldo Lado
• "Nicoletta, Child of Darkness" interview with actress Nicoletta Elmi
• "Once Upon a Time in Venice" interview with co-writer Francesco Barilli
• "Giallo in Venice" interview with author and critic Michael Mackenzie
• Italian Theatrical Trailer
• English Theatrical Trailer
• Poster and Fotobusta Gallery
• Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Haunt Love 

Vinegar Syndrome weaponizes DECODER (review)

In a dystopian Hamburg, a punk musician discovers a nefarious plot by the government to control human behavior with Muzak.  He then arms a cult of rebels with tape recorders with manpulated sounds to stir up revolution.  FM Einheit and Christiane F. herself star.  With music by Soft Cell.

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

DECODER Blu-ray/DVD Combo Specs:

• Blu-ray:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 pillarboxed fullscreen
• German/English DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• DVD:
• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen
• German/English Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono
• Optional English subtitles (for German dialogue) and English SDH (for all dialogue)
• Audio Commentary by critic, author and film programmer Kier-La Janisse
• "Sound as a Weapon” interview with writer/producer Klaus Maeck
• Archival Audio Interview with writer/producer Klaus Maeck
• Excerpts from "Pirate Tape" filmmaker Derek Jarman films William S. Burroughs on set
• Video Footage from the 1982 Berlin Riots
• Locations "Then and Now" Comparison
• Italian "Decoder Collective" Documentary
• Theatrical Trailer
• Stills Gallery
• Reversible cover

The first 2,000 copies ordered directly from Vinegar Syndrome come with a special limited edition embossed slipcover designed by Derek Gabryszak.

Film Movement follows THE MAD ADVENTURES OF RABBI JACOB (review)

A case of mistaken and assumed identities has an Arab revolutionary and a bigoted French industrialist posting as Hassidic Jewish Rabbis to escape counterrevolutionary killers, the police, and the Frenchman's violently jealous wife in this seventies comedy starring Louis de Funès.

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

THE MAD ADVENTURES OF RABBI JACOB Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• French/Hebrew/English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Interview with co-screenwriter Danièle Thompson
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers
• Booklet by Phoebe Maltz Bovy