American Genre Film Archive contracts a PATHOGEN (review)

Emily Hagins was twelve years old when she conceived her feature film debut PATHOGEN and fifteen when it was screened at the Alamo Drafthouse.  When a nanochip intended to cure cancer that has the side effect of raising flesh-eating zombies gets into the water system, five grade school students must fight for their life as their neighborhood is taken over by the walking dead.

REVIEW LINK: American Genre Film Archive (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

PATHOGEN Blu-ray specs:

• 1080i60 MPEG-4 AVC 1.33:1 Pillaboxed Fullscreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Emily Hagins and Bleeding Skull's Annie Choi
• Cast and Crew QA from the 2006 Theatrical Premiere
• "Zombie Girl: The Movie" feature-lenght making-of documentary by Justin Johnson, Aaron Marshall, and Erik Mauck
• "Party Killer" short film directed by Emily Hagins
• Reversible cover.
• The first 2,500 copies ordered directly from Vinegar Syndrome comes with a slipcover.
  

Acorn Media and Shudder room with SUPERHOST (Review)

A pair of lifestyle vloggers book a stay at a "lifechanging" AirBnB and get the hostess from hell in SUPERHOST.

REVIEW LINK: Acorn Media (UK) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

SUPERHOST Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH and Spanish Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by writer/director Brandon Christensen
• Behind-the-Scenes of SUPERHOST
• "Shooting in a Pandemic"
• Bloopers
• "SUPERHOST Visual FX"
• Behind the Scenes Photo Gallery
• "Scaredycats" shorts
  

Actresses duel to the death in Unearthed Films' 2LDK (review)

A pair of actresses sharing an apartment are after the same role and the same man in Yukihiko Tsutsumi's "duel to the death" 2LDK.

REVIEW LINK: Unearthed Films/MVD Visual (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

2LDK Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 Widescreen
• Japanese DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by actresses Maho Nonami and Eiko Koike
• "Making of 2LDK" documentary
• "Duel Production Briefing"
• Video Message for the Theater Audience
• Tokyo International Fantastic Film Festival Interviews
• Premiere Screening Interviews
• Screening at Kudan Kaikan Interviews
• Photo Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
• Trailers
  

Vinegar Syndrome goes behind bars with REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS (review)

When a young woman joins the REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS, she is at the mercy of a sadistic matron, a mercilles warden, and a butch gang run by Plasmatics singer Wendy O. Williams in Tom DeSimone's campy take on the women-in-prison genre.

REVIEW LINK: Vinegar Syndrome (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by writer/director Tom DeSimone, moderated by humorist Martin Lewis
• Audio Commentary by queer film historian Elizabeth Purchell
• "So Young, So Bad, So What" four-part making-of documentary
• "Pat Ast Superstar" interview with theatrical producer Alan Eichler
• "Ode to Wendy" interview with author and critic Breanna Whipple on the life and career of actress Wendy O. Williams
• Video footage from the play "Women Behind Bars"
• Theatrical Trailers
• Reversible Cover
• The first 5,000 units ordered directly from Vinegar Syndrome includes a special limited edition embossed slipcover designed by Earl Kessler Jr.
  

Arrow gets entagled in LIES AND DECEIT courtesy of Claude Chabrol (review)

 "Too often overlooked and undervalued, Claude Chabrol was the first of the Cahiers du Cinema critics to release a feature film and would be among the most prolific. The sneaky anarchist of the French New Wave, he embraced genre as a means of lifting the lid on human nature. Nothing is sacred and nothing is certain in the films of Claude Chabrol: anything can be corrupted, and usually will be."

REVIEW LINK: Arrow Video (US/UK) Region A/B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

LIES AND DECEIT - FIVE FILMS BY CLAUDE CHABROL Blu-ray specs:

• Disc One - Cop au vin:
  
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• French DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film critic Ben Sachs
• Interview with film historian Ian Christie
• "Claude Chabrol at the BFI" 1994 interview with director Claude Chabrol at the National Film Theatre, conducted by film historian Ian Christie
• "Claude Chabrol, Jean Poiret & Stephane Audran in Conversation" 1985 Swiss TV interview for "Special Cinema"
• Introduction by film scholar Joël Magny
• Selected Scene Commentaries by director Claude Chabrol
• Theatrical Trailer
• Image Gallery
  
• Disc Two - Inspector Lavardin:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• French LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film critic Ben Sachs
• "Why Chabrol?" interview with film critic Sam Wigley
• Introduction by film scholar Joël Magny
• Selected Scene Commentaries by director Claude Chabrol
• Theatrical Trailer
• Image Gallery
  
• Disc Three - Madame Bovary:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• French LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film critic Kat Ellinger
• "Imagining Emma: Madame Bovary on Screen" visual essay by film historian Pamela Hutchinson
• Introduction by film scholar Joël Magny
• Selected Scene Commentaries by director Claude Chabrol
• Theatrical Trailer
• Image Gallery
  
• Disc Four - Betty:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• French LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film critic Kat Ellinger
• "Betty, from Simenon to Chabrol" visual essay by French cinema historian Ginette Vincendeau
• Interview with Georges Simenon translator Ros Schwartz
• Introduction by film scholar Joël Magny
• Selected Scene Commentary by director Claude Chabrol
• Theatrical Trailer
• Image Gallery
  
• Disc Five - Torment:
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• French LPCM 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson
• "On Henri Georges Clouzot" interview with director Claude Chabrol about filmmaker Henri Georges Clouzot
• Interview with producer Marin Karmitz
• Introduction by film scholar Joël Magny
• Selected Scene Commentary by director Claude Chabrol
• Theatrical Trailer
• Image Gallery
  
• Comes in limited edition packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Tony Stella and a fully-illustrated 80-page collector's booklet of new writing on the films by film critics Martyn Conterio, Kat Ellinger, Philip Kemp, and Sam Wigley plus select archival material.

Eureka chills and thrills with THREE MONSTER TALES OF SCI-FI TERROR (review)

THREE MONSTER TALES OF SCI-FI TERROR showcase the forgotten Universal horrors, casting Lon Chaney Jr. as a MAN-MADE MONSTER, crushing entire towns and people with THE MONOLITH MONSTERS, and clawing coeds with MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS.

REVIEW LINK: Eureka Video (UK) Region B Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

THREE MONSTER TALES OF SCI-FI TERROR Blu-ray specs: 

• Disc One:
• Man-Made Monster (1941):
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.37:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by author Stephen Jones and author/critic Kim Newman
• Production Stills Gallery
• Artwork and Ephemera Gallery
  
• The Monolith Monsters (1957): 
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.00:1 Widescren
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historians Kevin Lyons and Jonathan Rigby
• Production Stills Gallery
• Artwork and Ephemera Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
  
• Disc Two:
• Monster on the Campus (1958): 
• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.00:1 Widescreen and 1.33:1 Pillarboxed Fullscreen Versions
• English LPCM 2.0 Mono
• Optional English HoH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by author Stephen Jones and author/critic Kim Newman
• Production Stills Gallery
• Artwork and Ephemera Gallery
• Theatrical Trailer
  
• The first 2,000 copies come with a limited edition O-card slipcase and a collector's booklet featuring new writing on the films included in this set by film scholar Craig Ian Mann.

Second Run hops a COACH TO VIENNA (review)

In the closing days of World War II, two fleeing German soldiers of the Czech occupation force a woman to take them to the Austrian border.  Little do they suspect the the woman has just buried her husband who was executed by the Nazis and she is planning to take them off course in search of revenge.

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

COACH TO VIENNA Blu-ray specs: 

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.35:1 Widescreen
• Czech/German LPCM 1.0 Mono
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by Projection Booth podcast film historians Mike White, Samm Deighan, and Kat Ellinger
• "It's Not Always Cloudy [Není stále zamračeno]" 1949 semi-documentary graduation film, co-directed by Karel Kachyňa and Vojtěch Jasný
• Theatrical Trailer
• Image Gallery
• 20-page booklet featuring a new essay on the film by author and Czechoslovak cinema specialist Jonathan Owen