You might not be familiar with the 1968 British psycho-thriller Twisted Nerve starring Hayley Mills, but you probably heard the theme song. Bernard Herrmann’s unforgettable musical score includes a demented whistling theme that Quentin Tarantino appropriated for Kill Bill and…
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Director George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead) considered his offbeat 1977 vampire film Martin his favorite among the movies he made. And with good reason. There is a new Blu-ray of Martin from a company in England- Second…
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“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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Speaking of May flowers, there’s a delicious bouquet of Blu-rays this month, from a sinfully sardonic thriller starring Alain Delon, to three films from the criminally underused Anna May Wong, to one of my favorite Greta Garbo films, to a…
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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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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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I have to admit I’m an April fool for many of the Blu-ray releases this month which include (finally) a stunning restoration of the startling Pre-Code movie- Safe in Hell. Then there’s the blistering dark satire- Triangle of Sadness; a…
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I’ll admit to loving an actress when she really goes for broke, especially in a horror film. Now restraint is not in the vocabulary of an actress like Susan Tyrrell. Her turn as a skid-row drunk in John Huston’s Fat…
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March may have been bad news for Julius Caesar, but for Blu-ray enthusiasts this ushers in some real treats- like a great, early Andre Techine film, a sensational Joan Crawford melodrama, a warped Mathew Bright comedy starring Natasha Lyonne, a…
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Violent Streets: the Umberto Lenzi/Tomas Milian Collection is a sensational new box set from Severin featuring five gritty, outrageous crime films from Italian director Umberto Lenzi, particularly the ones he made in the 1970s with the electrifying actor Tomas Milian.…
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