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Blu-Rays you must see

Beau is Afraid

            One of the best films people didn’t see in theaters recently was Beau is Afraid. It’s coming on on Blu-ray on July 11 from Lionsgate and I urge you to experience it’s maniacal charms. Directed by Ari Aster’s it’s about…
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Mexico Macabre

            Spooky castles, vengeful witches, malevolent eyeless crying women and a shapeshifting Baron who transforms into a hairy, big-headed monster with an elongated forked tongue that sucks out your brain. These are some of the pleasures in an astonishing new Blu-ray…
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Trouble Every Day

            “Eat me,” achieves a radical interpretation in Claire Denis’ (I Can’t Sleep, Beau travail) gruesome art house horror film out now in a gorgeous Blu-ray from The Film Desk.             Beatrice Dalle (Betty Blue) plays Core, a young woman who suffers…
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The Wounded Man

            Finally available on Blu-ray (from Altered Innocence) is Patrice Chereau’s defiantly disturbing 1983 film about a young man’s dangerous sexual obsession with an older male hustler.              Director Patrice Chereau was mostly known for his inspired staging of operas and theater.…
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Danza Macabra

            New from Severin is this fabulous 4-movie Blu-ray box set of Italian gothic horror treats from the 1960s and 1970s. There is an abundance of cobwebs and candelabras, gloomy castles with secret passageways and hidden horrors. But some of the…
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