MTI is trapped in a COFFIN (review)

Jack Samms returns home from a business trip to find his house invaded by sack-masked Trick who shows him video proving that his wife Rona and her lover Sean have been buried alive.  They have only seventy-five minutes of oxygen and will die unless Jack pays up.  When the police investigating Sean's disappearance connect him to Jack's wife, Jack becomes a suspect in their disappearance while he is trying to outwit Trick to save them.  Kevin Sorbo and Bruce Davison also star.

REVIEW LINK: MTI Home Video (US) Region 1 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

COFFIN DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Audio Commentary by director's Kipp Tribble and Derik Wingo
• Behind the Scenes
• Actor Patrick Barnitt's Video Diary
• Trailer
• Additional MTI Home Video Trailers

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Second Run debuts Adoor Gopalakrishnan's MAN OF THE STORY on DVD (review)

Epic in scope but intimate in focus, Adoor Gopalakrishnan's MAN OF THE STORY covers forty years of India's history as experienced by Kunjunni.  Abandoned by his father and raised by his grandmother when his mother falls ill, Kunjunni is initially frightened by the changing social and political landscape of India.  Leaving home for college, he soon sheds his feudal familial roots to fight for social change and embrace new ideas and movements whenever the old ones become too rigid and oppressive.  His broadening political awareness also allows him to come to terms with the deep-seated emotional pain of his family life.

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

MAN OF THE STORY (Kathapurushan) DVD specs:

• 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.33:1 fullscreen (original aspect ratio)
• Malayalam Dolby Digital 2.0 mono
• Optional English subtitles
• Interview with Adoor Gopalakrishnan
• Liner Notes Booklet by Suranjan Ganguly

Kino and Redemption Films adopt the TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES (review)

Louise and Henriette are the "blind angels" of the Glycines Orphanage, but the Mother Superior and kindly Sister Martha do not realize that the two girls are actually vampires who can only see at night and hunt the nearby graveyard for human and animal victims.  When a kindly eye doctor decides to adopt the orphans and take them back to Paris with him, the city provides the pair with bigger adventures (and cemeteries), but also bigger dangers for humans and from others of their own kind.  Tina Aumont (TORSO), Natalie Perrey (LIPS OF BLOOD), and Brigitte Lahaie (GRAPES OF DEATH) also star.

REVIEW LINK: Kino Lorber/Redemption Films (US) Region ALL Blu-Ray (DVD Drive-In)

TWO ORPHAN VAMPIRES Blu-Ray specs:

• 1080P AVC-encoded widescreen 1.78:1 aspect ratio
• French and English LPCM 2.0 audio tracks
• Optional English Subtitles
• "Memories of a Blue World" retrospective documentary by Daniel Gouyette (40 mins)
• Interview with Jean Rollin (20 mins)
• Theatrical Trailer
• Jean Rollin Trailer Show
• Liner Notes Booklet by VIDEO WATCHDOG's Tim Lucas.

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Vertigo Films spends A NIGHT IN THE WOODS (review)

When Brody (and his camera), his girlfriend Kerry, and her "cousin" Leo head out to Dartmoor's Wistman's Wood for a camping trip and fail to heed the warning about the legend of the huntsman.  It seems that he stalks and hangs sinners, and this groups dysfunctional brand of sexual shenanigans and mind games make them very tasty targets in this "found footage" horror pic from the makers of BRONSON and MONSTERS.  Scoot McNairy (MONSTERS), Anna Skellern (THE DESCENT 2), and Andrew Hawley star.

REVIEW LINK: Vertigo Films/Momentum Pictures (UK) Region 0 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

A NIGHT IN THE WOODS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen
• English Dolby Digital 5.1
• Optional English SDH subtitles
• Making-of Featurette
• Trailer

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Zombie wedding crashers in eOne's [REC] 3 (review)

It's Clara and Koldo's wedding day, and not even an outbreak of rabid, demonic zombies (including members of their own family) is going to keep the young lovers apart.  Brandishing chainsaws and swords, the two (and a handful of survivors) hack, saw, and slash their way through the possessed hordes EVIL DEAD-style in Paco Plaza's [REC] 3: GENESIS (Plaza's co-director on the first two films is helming the fourth installment as a prequel).

REVIEW LINK: Entertainment One (UK) Region 2 PAL DVD (DVDBeaver)

REC 3: GENESIS DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 2.35:1 widescreen
• Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo
• Optional English subtitles 
• "Preparing a Bloody Wedding" featurette
• Outtakes
• Deleted Scenes

Ethan Hawke gets SINISTER (in UK theaters October 16)

Ethan Hawke stars in a new supernatural thriller from the producers of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY and INSIDIOUS.  Crime writer Ellison (Hawke) moves his family into a house that is the scene of the latest crime he is investigating - the unsolved brutal murder of a suburban family - he discovers 8mm film of the murders in the attic, and begins to believe that the same unidentified assailant in the film may still be in the house and is stalking him and his family.

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Scorpion Releasing takes in a double bill of THE HEARSE and BLOOD OF DRACULA'S CASTLE (review)

Scorpion Releasing presents a Crown International double bill.  Trish Van Devere (THE CHANGELING) plays a young woman who inherits an old house from her long dead aunt, but apparitions and slamming doors are the least of her problems when a mysterious hearse and its scarred driver starts stalking her on the roads at night in THE HEARSE.  In BLOOD OR DRACULA'S CASTLE, a cheesecake photographer and his fiancee inherit Falcon Rock castle, but it already has tenants: the Count and Countess Dracula and they would find it very inconvenient to relocate with their deformed servant, creepy butler, psychopathic werewolf, and dungeon full of nubile blood donors.  Alex D'Arcy, Paula Raymond, and John Carradine star.

REVIEW LINK: Scorpion Releasing (US) Region 0 NTSC DVD (DVDBeaver)

THE HEARSE/BLOOD OF DRACULA'S CASTLE DVD specs:

• 16:9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen transfers of both films
• THE HEARSE transferred from a brand new HD master of the original negative
• First ever widescreen transfer of the werewolf version of BLOOD OF DRACULA'S CASTLE
• Audio Interview with THE HEARSE author William Bleich
• THE HEARSE Theatrical Trailer
• Katarina Leigh Waters interviews BLOOD OF DRACULA'S CASTLE stuntman/production manager John "Bud" Cardos

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