Cinema Libre is AT WAR (review)

When the management goes back on its promise to protect jobs and plans to shut down an auto plant, eleven hundred workers go on strike and demand to be heard by those in power in the bitter and all-too-realistic AT WAR.

REVIEW LINK: Cinema Libre (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVDCompare)

AT WAR Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 widescreen
• French Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Burnt-in English subtitles
• Optional English SDH track
• Theatrical Trailer
• Start-up Trailers

Paramount tracks a NIGHT HUNTER (review)

Superman Henry Cavill is a grizzled and burnt-out police detective (yeah, right) on the trail of a serial rapist and murderer in the thriller NIGHT HUNTER with Ben Kingsley and Stanley Tucci.

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

NIGHT HUNTER Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 2.40:1 Widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Optional English SDH, English, and Spanish subtitles
• Digital Copy Code
• Slipcover

Kino Lorber investigates NELLY AND MONSIEUR ARNAUD (Review)

Down on her luck Nelly walks out on a loveless marriage thanks to the no-strings-attached offer of money to pay off her debts from wealthy Pierre Arnaud.  He further offers to pay her to help him finish his memoirs.  While their relationship constantly threatens to give way to romance or lust, it evolves into something more as they open up to one another and are both tugged in other directions in their guarded personal lives in the final film of Claude Sautet (UN COEUR EN HIVER).  Emmanuelle Beart, Michel Serrault, and Jean-Hughes Anglade star.

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

NELLY AND MONSIEUR ARNAUD Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 widescreen
• French DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by film historian Kat Ellinger
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers
• Essay booklet by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum

Severin Films composes PAGANINI HORROR (Review)

Kate would sell her soul for fame, but she does not realize that that is indeed what she and her band members are doing when they create a rock song from an unpublished manuscript by the great violinist Paganini and shoot a horror-themed music video in his villa where his undead spirit lurks.  Daria Nicolodi and Donald Pleasance star.

REVIEW LINK: Severin Films (US) Region A Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

PAGANINI HORROR Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.66:1 Widescreen
• English and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH subtitles (for English dub) and English subtitles (for Italian dub)
• “Play It Again, Paganini” interview with director Luigi Cozzi
• “The Devil’s Music” interview with actor Pietro Genuardi
• Deleted Scenes and Alternate Ending
• Theatrical Trailer
• Limited Edition includes the CD Soundtrack by Vince Tempera

Limited Edition:

Standard Blu-ray edition:

Also available directly from Severin Films in the The ByPagThrope Bundle
with companion October releases Byleth and Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory, along with "Severin Films Hall of Fame Enamel Pin #9: Luigi Cozzi (Attic Flood)", "Severin Films Hall of Fame Enamel Pin #10: Daria Nicolodi (Pixel Elixir)", and "Severin Films Hall of Fame Enamel Pin #11: Donald Pleasence (Pixel Elixir)".

Scorpion Releasing explores DEEP SPACE (Review)

Charles Napier, Ron Glass, Ann Turkel, Bo Svenson, and Julie Newmar star in Fred Olen Ray's ALIENS-inspired creature feature as police investigate a series of brutal murders following a meteor crash from out of DEEP SPACE.

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

DEEP SPACE Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Audio Commentary by director Fred Olen Ray
• Theatrical Trailer
• Bonus Trailers 
• Includes a limited edition slipcover while supplies last.

Available directly from Ronin Flix
and Diabolik DVD.

Scorpion Releasing peeps on NANA (Review)

Counts and kings of industry alike fall at the feet of the "Venus of the gutter" NANA in this softcore adaptation of Emile Zola's novel of the original femme fatale.

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

NANA Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen
• English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
• Optional English SDH Subtitles
• Bonus Trailers

Available directly from Ronin Flix
and Diabolik DVD.

Severin Films sculpts a WAX MASK (review)

Dario Argento presents make-up and visual effects artist Sergio Stivaletti's directorial debut of a project intended to mark the return of Lucio Fulci before he died during pre-production.  A series of mysterious deaths around Paris coincide with the grand opening of a wax museum of horrors with extremely lifelike exhibits.

REVIEW LINK: Severin Films (US) Region ALL Blu-ray (DVD Drive-in)

WAX MASK Blu-ray specs:

• 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.78:1 widescreen
• English and Italian DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and 2.0 Stereo
• Optional English SDH subtitles (for the English track) and English (for the Itailan track)
• Audio Commentary by director/special effects artist Sergio Stivaletti and Michelangelo Stivaletti
• “Beyond Fulci” interviews with producer Dario Argento, director Sergio Stivaletti, producer Giuseppe Columbo, production designer Massimo Geleng, actress Gabriella Giorgelli, and filmmaker Claudio Fragasso
• “The Chamber of Horrors” interview with producer Dario Argento, director Sergio Stivaletti, producer Giuseppe Columbo, production designer Massimo Geleng, and actress Gabriella Giorgelli
• “Living Dolls” interviews with producer Dario Argento, director Sergio Stivaletti, producer Giuseppe Columbo, and actress Gabriella Giorgelli
• “The Mysteries of the Wax Museum” interview with special effects artist Sergio Stivaletti
• “The Waxworks Symphony” interview with composer Maurizio Abeni
• “The Grand Opening” interviews with producer Dario Argento, director Sergio Stivaletti, and producer Giuseppe Columbo
• “Wax Unmasked” interview with critic Alan Jones
• Vintage Featurettes:
• Behind the Scenes
• Special Effects
• On Set with Dario Argento
• LIMITED EDITION Slipcover and Soundtrack CD of 4000 Copies

Limited Edition:

Standard Edition:

Also available directly from Severin Films in The Wax Mask Bundle with a movie-themed keychain, sticker, and 5”x7” lenticular print.