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Author Archive: Dennis Dermody

New Extremity Collection

            New Extremity Collection (Volume One) (Umbrella) A 4-disc Blu-ray box set of some cinematic highlights from the genre of films christened “New French Extremity,” reveling in brutality, sex and violence. There is a sensational book: “Films of the New French…
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Mabuse Lives!

            I was so overjoyed with Eureka Entertainment’s gorgeous box set of the German “Krimi” thrillers of CCC Studios in the 1960s that I broke down and ordered their Dr. Mabuse film set which included, among others, director Fritz Lang’s return…
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Jack the Ripper

            A fog shrouded street in London’s seedy Whitechapel district in 1888. A woman stumbles drunkenly from a bar and totters down the circuitous streets, dropping her purse at one point and she unsteadily collects her possessions spilled out on the…
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Pete Walker Crime Collection

             Pete Walker was a maverick British producer/director who cut a name for himself with a series of harrowing shockers in the 1970s. Films like House of Whipcord, Frightmare and House of Mortal Sin were devastating and fiercely original thrillers. But…
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Terror in the Fog

            An incredible box set of German crime films is being released this month by Eureka! and they are just spectacular- presented in High Definition from 2K restorations from the original film elements undertaken by CCC Film.             Now, much like the…
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