This is an insane month for Blu-ray collectors! From sci-fi classics like The Mole People, Horror Express & The Giant Behemoth to Italian cannibal movies & thrillers, documentaries about “Giallos,” Mondo movies and Desert Fury, a film noir so laden…
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A wild mix of Blu-rays for January- from rare Brian De Palma, classic Hitchcock, creepy Hammer classics, oddball Mario Bavas and Joan Crawford chewing the scenery and Jeff Chandler’s face in a camp classic. Female On The Beach (Kino Lorber)…
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This is a great month for home media- from vintage Orson Welles, rare Jean Cocteau, Robert Aldrich, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Lucio Fulci, not to mention Dennis Hopper’s controversial (never-before-on-home-video) The Last Movie and a tribute to peroxide screen vixen…
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Sex has always been an undercurrent in vampire movies. When Christopher Lee (as Dracula) chowed down on a new victim on screen there was always a hint of orgasmic pleasure. And when censorship relaxed, filmmakers exploited the breasts and blood…
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Just in time for Halloween- a great batch of horror and suspense-filled Blu-rays are getting released on an unsuspecting public. Trilogy Of Terror (Kino Lorber) A great 1975 TV movie by Dan Curtis based on several short stories by Richard…
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This month there are Blu-ray releases of movies I never ever expected to have, or own, and especially in such stellar, digitally remastered condition. I wake up in the middle of the night and shake my head thinking that the…
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To me, one of the high points this summer is the Blu-ray releases of two great William Castle films by Scream Factory. The Tingler (Scream Factory) A great 1959 William Castle film starring Vincent Price as a doctor studying “fear”…
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“Fix us a dvink,” says Renee Harmon, with her molasses-thick German accent, in the hilariously inept action movie Lady Street Fighter, given an astonishing Blu-ray restoration by AGFA. She plays Linda Allen, cop and kick-boxer who has made a date…
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What can you say about a 1972 film concerning a pretty, blonde L.A. socialite (who’s secretly a necrophiliac) which also co-stars Lyle Waggoner (of The Carol Burnett Show fame)? Well that’s what you get, and more, in the gloriously deranged…
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Dietrich & Von Sternberg In Hollywood (Criterion) A staggering box set of director Josef von Sternberg’s six films with his muse- Marlene Dietrich. There’s Morocco (1930), where the gorgeous Dietrich is singing in a Moroccan club in male drag and…
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