The new Blu-ray release of Uzumaki (2000) by director Higuchinsky is a startling reminder of the surreal power of cinema. Based on a Manga by Junji Ito, it’s about a small Japanese village cursed by spirals. A father becomes obsessed…
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So many rare treats on Blu-ray this month- from dazzling MGM musicals to rare Warner Oland Fu Manchu thrillers, to a great new horror film from director Ti West, a memorably creepy film about alien abduction, Paul Verhoeven’s racy tale…
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Chesty Morgan beats a man to death with her 73-inch breasts. Two scientists build a rocket and fly to the moon only to find overweight, scantily clad girls with pipe cleaners sticking out of their heads. A husband is mysteriously…
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May flowers mean only one thing to me- a colorful bouquet of batshit Blu-rays. And this month offers everything from the stupid to the sublime. A ludicrously ripe retelling of the life of the Marquis de Sade, a talking mule, a…
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Jayne Mansfield on Blu-ray! What more can one say about the glittering array of Blu-ray treats out this month? Frank Tashlin’s hilarious The Girl Can’t Help (starring Jayne) gets the special Criterion treatment. Two of Vincent Price’s best- the Dr.…
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Now out on DVD from Kino Lorber is director Mark Rappaport’s wonderfully meta take on closeted actor Rock Hudson. Using Eric Farr as a stand-in for Hudson it begins seven years after the actor’s death from AIDs which shocked the…
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This month’s Blu-ray treats offer a wild range of cult and mainstream favorites, many transformed into 4K UHD editions and other rarities suddenly available in stunning restorations for the first time on home video. Included is Dario Argento’s deliriously demented-…
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The new Dark Force Blu-ray release of Fangs (aka Holy Wednesday), a fabulously deranged 1974 horror film, is a cause for great slithery joy. This loony film was shot in San Bernardino and is the only feature film directed by…
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The newest box set of rare “giallos” (Italian thrillers from the 70s and 80s) ratchets up the sleaze meter to 10. These Vinegar Syndrome box sets are handsomely boxed and all are scanned from the film’s negatives and look astonishing.…
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One should growl at the moon to cheer the glorious release of a 2-disc Blu-ray of one of the rarest Sasquatch splatter films from 1980- Night of the Demon. Severin has lovingly restored this practically unseen film from the answer…
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