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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A gothic horror masterpiece, The House That Screamed, directed by Narciso Ibanez Serrador, was made in 1969, at the tail end of the repressive Franco regime in Spain. But it was an important chapter in horror films made in that…
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The new box set- Made in Hong Kong: Volume One– from Vinegar Syndrome is a deliciously demented collection of three Category III shockers. I’ve always been such a fan of the infamous Category III films and have written about my…
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Blu-ray valentines abound this month, with many Francois Truffaut directorial treats, a new thriller from Dario Argento, a witty, politically savvy werewolf film, a sexy melodrama starring Esther Williams and Jeff Chandler, an early Mel Gibson action film, a banned…
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I recently acquired a new (all region) Blu-ray from an Australian company Via Vision that made me insane. It’s a gorgeous new Blu-ray of A Rage to Live, a 1965 film directed by Walter Grauman and starring the incandescent, husky-voiced,…
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