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Time Stamps
“Halloween 2018” Review – 1:04
“The Ritual” Review – 9:26
“Torso” Review – 13:54
“Twelve Monkeys” Review – 21:40
“Beware! The Blob” Review – 27:16
The VHS Voyage “Shreck” Review – 31:12
“13 Tzameti” Pick a movie Review – 39:37
Pick a movie drawing – 44:13
Q&A –45:00
Question of the Week Answers– 47:57
Question of the Week – Your favorite movie poster taglines? – 51:02
Update – 51:38

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FACE YOUR FATE
Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
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Halloween 2018” Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/HalloweenMovie/

Four friends with a long-standing -- but strained -- connection take a hiking trip into the Swedish wilderness, from which they may never return.
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“The Ritual” Netflix – https://www.netflix.com/title/80217312

A talented and versatile journeyman, director Sergio Martino (The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key) has lent his talents to multiple genres across his long and varied career, but it is undoubtedly his giallo thrillers from the early 70s for which he is best known. Among the most highly acclaimed of these, 1973's Torso revels in the genre's time-honored traditions while simultaneously laying the groundwork for the modern slasher movie. A sex maniac is prowling the streets of Perugia, targeting picturesque university town's female students. Alarmed at plummeting life expectancy of the student body, Jane (Suzy Kendall, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage) and her three friends elope to a secluded country villa - only to discover that, far from having left the terror behind, they've brought it with them! Also known as Carnal Violence, Torso was released in Italy towards the end of the giallo boom before enjoying a second life on the American grindhouse circuit. Co-starring Tina Aumont (Salon Kitty) and Luc Merenda (The Violent Professionals), the film finds its director at the top of his game, delivering copious levels of violence, sleaze and one of the tensest cat-and-mouse games ever committed to celluloid!

Bonus Materials
New audio commentary by Kat Ellinger, author of All the Colours of Sergio Martino
New video interview with co-writer/director Sergio Martino
New video interview with actor Luc Merenda
New video interview with co-writer Ernesto Gastaldi
New video interview with filmmaker Federica Martino, daughter of Sergio Martino
New video interview with Mikel J. Koven, author of La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film
2017 Abertoir International Horror Festival Q&A with Sergio Martino
Italian and English theatrical trailers
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Adam Rabalais

Arrow Video – http://www.arrowvideo.com/
 
“Torso” Blu-Ray – https://mvdshop.com/products/torso-blu-ray

The future is history!

Following the commercial and critical success of The Fisher King, Terry Gilliam next feature would turn to science fiction and a screenplay by Janet and David Peoples (Blade Runner, Unforgiven) inspired by Chris Marker's classic short film La Jetée. In 1996, a deadly virus is unleashed by a group calling themselves the Army of the Twelve Monkeys, destroying much of the world's population and forcing survivors underground. In 2035, prisoner James Cole (Bruce Willis, Die Hard) is chosen to go back in time and help scientists in their search for a cure. Featuring an Oscar-nominated turn by Brad Pitt (Fight Club) as mental patient Jeffrey Goines, Twelve Monkeys would become Gilliam's most successful film and is now widely regarded as a sci-fi classic. Arrow Films are proud to present the film in a stunning new restoration.

Bonus Materials
Audio commentary by Terry Gilliam and producer Charles Roven
The Hamster Factor and Other Tales of Twelve Monkeys, feature-length making-of documentary by Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe (Lost in La Mancha)
Extensive image galley
Theatrical trailer
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin

Arrow Video – http://www.arrowvideo.com/

“Twelve Monkeys” Blu-Ray – https://mvdshop.com/products/twelve-monkeys-blu-ray

Newly Re-mastered in HD! The Blob returns... more outrageous than ever in this 1972 sequel to the popular sci-fi classic! Plenty of familiar faces, including Robert Walker Jr. (Ensign Pulver), Larry Hagman (Dallas), Sid Haig (Busting), Burgess Meredith (Rocky), Dick Van Patten (Eight is Enough), Godfrey Cambridge (Cotton Comes to Harlem), Cindy Williams (Laverne & Shirley), Carole Lynley (The Poseidon Adventure), Gerrit Graham (Used Cars) and Shelley Berman (You Don’t Mess with the Zohan) add to the fun. A geologist (Cambridge) unwittingly brings home an unusual frozen piece of debris from the North Pole. But when it accidentally thaws, the hungrier-than-ever Blob comes to life again, consuming nearly everyone in its path and terrorizing the town. No one is safe as it crawls into a bowling alley, oozes its way across an ice rink, becoming grotesquely bloated with the blood of its victims… can this bizarre creature ever be stopped? TV legend Larry Hagman directed this cult classic, the only feature film he ever directed – upon its 1980s re-release, the film was tagged "The Film that J.R. Shot!".

DVD Extras Include:
Audio Commentary by Film Historian Richard Harland Smith

Alternate Title Sequence

Trailers
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Kino Lorber Website – https://www.kinolorber.com/
 
“Beware! The Blob” Blu-Ray – https://www.kinolorber.com/product/beware-the-blob-aka-son-of-blob-blu-ray

THEY COMMANDED MAX TO RISE FROM THE GRAVE. HE WAS ONLY FOLLOWING ORDERS...Roger, Neil, and Mike are horror movie fans who have a mock seance to bring Nazi psycho Max Shreck back from the dead. Unfortunately, the seance works and Shreck wreaks havoc in our time.

“Shreck” YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vFTjAg_N74

Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.

Special features
Interview with Director Gela Babluani and Actors Georges Babluani and Aurélien Recoing
The DVD Design Contest – Top 13 finalists
Sunday’s Game - A short film about some nice old ladies
Testimony of a Survivor
Deleted scenes
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“13 Tzameti” DVD – https://www.amazon.com/13-Tzameti-George-Babluani/dp/B000KF0DJS

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​Blu-Rays 
1. Maximum Overdrive 
2. Savage Streets
3. Twilight Zone Complete Series (All 156 Episodes) 
4. The Deep
5. Creepshow
6. Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf
7. Dungeonmaster/The Eliminators 
8. Ghost Story
9. Last American Virgin
10. Sands of Kalahari 
11. The Deadly Bees
12. The Sender
13. The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission/ The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
14. Phase IV
15. High Noon Signature Edition
16. Body Double 
17. The Killing Kind
18. Def by Temptation 
19. The Incubus 
20. Blood Harvest
21. Housesitters

​Halloween – 2018 – David Gordon Green
The Ritual – 2017 – David Bruckner
Torso – 1973 – Sergio Martino 
Twelve Monkeys – 1995 – Terry Gilliam
Beware! The Blob – 1972 – Larry Hagman 
Shreck – 1990 – Carl Denham 
13 Tzameti – 2005 – Géla Babluani

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Time Stamps
“Deadbeat at Dawn” Review – 0:25
“Art School Confidential” Review – 10:00
“Bong of the Living Dead” Review – 17:12
The Weekly Western “Villa Rides” Review – 24:41
The VHS Voyage “Home Sweet Home” Review – 34:16
“Freak Out” Pick a movie Review – 40:20
Pick a movie drawing – 45:45
Q&A –46:28
Question of the Week (see description box) – 55:00
Update – 1:01:04
Question of the Week – Which actor/actresses has the most memorable or recognizable voice? 

Jim VanBebber's notorious, blood-drenched cult classic Deadbeat at Dawn rises again on the advent of its 30th anniversary, newly restored for the first time on Blu-ray. Locked and loaded with a raft of new extras, see Deadbeat as you've never seen it before - in all its head-busting, bone-crushing glory! Written by, directed by and starring VanBebber, Deadbeat follows the story of Goose - a gang leader whose girlfriend is brutally slaughtered when he attempts to leave the thug life behind. Pulled back into the gang, who've now formed an uneasy alliance with the thugs that butchered his girl, Goose sees an opportunity to exact his brutal, deadly revenge. The very definition of DIY, independent filmmaking (VanBebber quit film school after his first year and used his student loan to fund the movie), Deadbeat at Dawn surpasses its low-budget origins to create a revenge movie that delivers more thrills and bloody spills than all of Chuck Norris' films combined.

Bonus Materials
Brand new free-wheeling audio commentary with Jim VanBebber (’Goose’, The Ravens’ Gang Leader), actor Paul Harper (’Danny Carmodi’, The Spyders’ Gang Leader) and guest Cody Lee Hardin, moderated by filmmaker Victor Bonacore (Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story
Jim VanBebber, Deadbeat Forever! – a brand new retrospective documentary on VanBebber and the Deadbeat legacy by Filmmaker Victor Bonacore, featuring first-time interviews, super-rare footage, VanBebber’s college films and much, much more!
Archival 1986 behind-the-scenes documentary – Nate Pennington’s VHS documentary on a failed Deadbeat shoot
Outtakes, newly transferred in HD
Four newly-restored VanBebber short films – Into the Black (1983, 34 mins), My Sweet Satan (1993, 19 mins), Roadkill: The Last Days of John Martin (1994, 14 mins) and Gator Green (2013, 16 mins)
Jim VanBebber Music Video Collection, featuring never-before-seen Director’s Cuts
Chunkblower – promotional trailer for an unfinished Gary Blair Smith-produced gore-soaked feature film
Extensive Image Gallery – Never-Before-Seen Stills!
Reversible sleeve featuring newly commissioned artwork by Peter Strain

Arrow Video – http://www.arrowvideo.com/
 
“Deadbeat at Dawn” Blu-Ray – https://mvdshop.com/products/deadbeat-at-dawn-blu-ray

A HILARIOUS COMEDY FROM THE CREATORS OF

ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL follows talented young artist Jerome Platz (Max Minghella, The Social Network) as he escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art school. Here the boyish freshman's ambition is to become the world's greatest artist, like his hero Picasso. Unfortunately, the beauty and craft of Jerome's portraiture are not appreciated in an anything-goes art class. Neither his harsh judgments of his classmates' efforts nor his later attempts to create pseudo-art of his own win him any admirers. But Jerome does attract the attentions of his dream girl, the stunning and sophisticated Audrey (Sophia Myles, Transformers: Age of Extinction), an artist's model and daughter of a celebrated artist. Rejecting the affectations of the local art scene, Audrey is drawn to Jerome's sincerity. When Audrey shifts her attention to Jonah (Matt Keeslar, Scream 3), a hunky painter who becomes the school's latest art star, Jerome is heartbroken. Desperate, he concocts a risky plan to make a name for himself and win her back.

From Terry Zwigoff, the director of Ghost World and Bad Santa, Art School Confidential features a stellar supporting cast that includes John Malkovich (In the Line of Fire), Ethan Suplee (Mallrats), Joel David Moore (Avatar), Angelica Huston (The Addams Family), Jim Broadbent (Moulin Rouge!), Nick Swardson (Grandma's Boy), Adam Scott (Step Brothers) and Scoot McNairy (Argo) in a movie that's "enjoyable and reprises the same dyspeptic attitude that infused Ghost World" (The Washington Post).

Bonus Materials
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p, 1.85:1) presentation of the main feature
Audio: English 5.1 Surround, French Dolby Surround, Spanish 5.1 Surround, Portuguese 5.1
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese Language
Making of Art School Confidential
Deleted Scenes
Blooper Reel
Sundance Featurette
Original Theatrical Trailer

MVD Marquee Collection Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/MVDMarqueeCollectionandMVDClassics/
 
“Art School Confidential” Blu-Ray – https://mvdshop.com/products/art-school-confidential-blu-ray

Hot off the film festival circuit and FINALLY available to enjoy from the comfort of your own couch, comes the multiple award winning stoner/zombie masterpiece from Backward Slate Productions...Bong of the Living Dead!!!

"Its the story of five friends who share both a love of pot and a lifelong dream to see the zombie apocalypse become reality. But when the undead actually rise to gruesomely (and hilariously) eat the living, the group discovers it's not all corpse-killing montages and mall raids ... and that their relationships will be pushed to the limit if they're going to survive."

DISC 1: Blu-ray includes:
- Feature Film Approx 83 mins
∙ Audio Commentary by Backward Slate Productions
∙ 420 Friendly Commentary 
∙ Behind the Scenes & Bloopers
∙ Deleted Scene
∙ Smoke Pistola Grande Informercial
∙ Stacey Seagull Big Workout
∙ VHS Music Video
∙ Zombie Killer
∙  Swords and Bitches 3
∙ Behind the Scenes
∙ Teaser Trailer
∙ Trailer
∙ Motion Menus
DISC 2: DVD includes:
∙ All of the Above
Number of Discs: 2
Single Layer Blu-ray Disc 
Dual Layer DVD Disc
All factory replicated and packaged content. NO BD-R or DVD-R.
All Discs are Region Free.

Scream Team Releasing – https://screamteamreleasing.com/
 
“Bong of the Living Dead” Blu-Ray/DVD Combo – https://screamteamreleasing.com/collections/dvd-vhs-bluray/products/bong-of-the-living-dead-special-collectors-edition-blu-ray-dvd-combo-pack

Villa Rides!, Buzz Kulik’s (Shamus) sprawling historical adventure set against the backdrop of the Mexican Revolution stars Yul Brynner (The Magnificent Seven) as the Mexican renegade Pancho Villa and Robert Mitchum (The Night of the Hunter) as Lee Arnold, an American fortune hunter for hire. Villa Rides! features a supporting cast that includes Charles Bronson (Messenger of Death) as Villa’s right hand man, Rodolfo Fierro; Herbert Lom (A Shot in the Dark) as the imperious General Victoriano Huerta; Alexander Knox (The Longest Day) as President Francisco Madero; Fernando Rey (The French Connection) as the dutiful soldier Fuentes; and Grazia Buccella (After the Fox) as Fina, the woman who would share the love of both Villa and Arnold. Villa Rides! is written for the screen by the legendary Robert Towne (Oscar-winning screenwriter of Chinatown – 1975) and Sam Peckinpah (Oscar nominee for The Wild Bunch screenplay – 1970) based on the novel by William Douglas Lansford; photographed by Jack Hildyard (Oscar winner for The Bridge on the River Kwai – 1958) and features a rousing score by three-time Oscar winner Maurice Jarre (Lawrence of Arabia – 1963, Doctor Zhivago – 1966, A Passage to India – 1985).

Olive Films Website – https://olivefilms.com/
 
“Villa Rides” Blu-Ray – https://olivefilms.com/product/villa-rides/

THIS YEAR, IT'S NOT THE TURKEY BEING CARVED FOR THANKSGIVING
An escaped mental patient steals a station wagon and makes his way to the Bradleys' Thanksgiving celebration, where he plans to make them a little less thankful...
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“Home Sweet Home” UK DVD – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Home-Sweet-DVD/dp/B000AQ5K18/

Merv Doody (James Heathcoate) is the ultimate horror movie geek until the day a notvery- dangerous escaped mental patient lands on his doorstep. With the help of his ambitious buddy Onkey (co-writer/producer Dan Palmer), the two decide to groom this feeble nutcase into a legendary slasher-movie maniac. But when the masked wacko develops a taste for bloodshed, he becomes a walking, stalking killing machine that only Merv and Onkey can stop. Gratuitous nudity, gross-out gore, foul language, arse piranhas, ska-punk legends Less Than Jake, and more — await in this international cult sensation written, produced and directed by Christian James that fans and critics call the most offensive and hilarious horror comedy of the year!

Two-Disc Special Edition includes
Commentary by Director/Writer/Producer Christian James, Actor/Writer Dan Palmer and Actor/Producer Yazz Fetto
Commentary by Christian James, Dan Palmer and Actors James Heathcote, Nicola Connell and Chilli Gold, moderated by BBC Radio 1 movie critic James King
"Making Out" Behind The Scenes Featurette
"Geek Out" Featurette – Internet movie critics expressing their views on the movie
"Bum-Feeling 101" Sketch featuring the characters of Freak Out
"5 Minute Film School" Humorous and informative film school-type tips
"Honey, I Blew Up The Looney" Featurette
"The Video Store" Spoof films
17 Deleted Scenes
Easter Eggs
Zaniac Music Video

“Freak Out” Double Disc DVD – https://www.amazon.com/Freak-Out-James-Heathcote/dp/B000H1RFUK/

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​Blu-Ray 
1. The Sadistic Baron Von Klaus 
2. Dr. Orloff’s Monster
3. Sunday in the Country 
4. Exterminator 2
5. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover 
6. Perversion Story 
7. Blood Lust 
DVDS
8. 13 Tzamati 

​Deadbeat at Dawn – 1988 – Jim VanBebber
My Sweet Satan – 1994 – Jim VanBebber 
Roadkill: The Last Days of John Martin – 1994 – Jim VanBebber 
Art School Confidential – 2006 – Terry Zwigoff
Bong of the Living Dead – 2017 – Max Groah
Villa Rides – 1968 – Buzz Kulik
Home Sweet Home – 1981 – Nettie Peña
Freak Out – 2004 – Christian James

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Time Stamps
“Tales from the Hood 2” Review – 0:58
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” Review – 9:07
“Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji” Review – 17:12
“Strait-Jacket” Review – 24:41
“Berserk” Review – 30:28
The VHS Voyage “The Prey” Review – 34:16
“Frailty” Pick a movie Review – 40:20
Pick a movie drawing – 45:45
Q&A –46:28
Question of the Week – 55:00
Severin Contest information and answers for the contest – 57:07
Contest Winner – 59:33
Update – 1:01:04
“Cannibal Holocaust” Extended Review with Keith Voigt Jr. – 1:04:13
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“The Bad Man” Blu-Ray Preorder Link – https://scottschirmer.com/collections/complete-catalog/products/the-bad-man-blu-ray

Cinema Wasteland Convention – https://www.cinemawasteland.com/
 
Podcast Version – 

Buckle up for an anthology of socially conscious horror stories that focus on the perils of racial injustice and the price of ignorance.

“Tales from the Hood 2” Netflix Streaming – https://www.netflix.com/title/81015317

Written by MrParka
                Olive Films brings the science fiction staple “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” to Blu-ray in a special signature edition. The 1956 classic is loaded with features and looks great. Don Siegel's paranoia classic finally gets the treatment it deserves.
                When Dr. Miles J. Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) returns home after an extended leave something is amiss; townsfolk are claiming that family members aren't who they appear to be. Miles, along with his love interest Becky Driscoll (Dana Wynter) and another couple, discovers a lifeless body that resembles someone of their party. The worried quartet decides to investigate, but it's already too late. To their horror they discover the town has been taken over by an out of this world foe that offers a scarier fate than death and, to make matters worse, the enemy attacks while you sleep.
                Besides being a well-crafted and terrifying film “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” does something that many of its contemporaries don't, it provokes thought. At times “Invasion” has been used as an allegory to Communism or McCarthyism, but the film isn’t focused on the ideology. It’s focused on the idea of conformity against ones will. It’s truly a scary idea to go to sleep one night and lose one’s identity; not just for a period of time but for all eternity. The film casts a hopeless feeling, a nightmare in the truest sense. Your friends, your family; they aren’t who they appear. There is nowhere to go and the idea of being taken over in your most private and peaceful time is stomach churning. The waking nightmare the characters are forced to endure becomes even more twisted as their psyche slips and their will fades. The two leads are wonderful as a pair of interested parties with a history; both coming from broken marriages. Throughout the film Kevin McCarthy’s pleasant and charming demeanor is changed into a blubbering madman helping the terror set in for the audience. Dana Wynter isn’t just good looks, but a strong female force that runs and fights back when need be. The modest budget didn’t stop some top notch special effects from being created. The scene where the survivors come across the pods that are beginning to take their form still works to this day and has inspired dozens of films. ”Invasion of the Body Snatchers” nightmare state works due to the performances, setting, and story. It all comes together perfectly. The lack of sleeps helps the never ending paranoia of the characters and the only way out of the waking nightmare is, ironically, sleep which one will never wake from.
                Olive Films has included a slew of features, porting over some old stuff from previous editions and creating a couple new ones for this release. The new inclusions are an interview with Don Siegel's son, a commentary by film historian Richard Harland Smith, and a great interview with film directors Joe Dante and Larry Cohen. The old features include contributions from historians, cast, crew, and famous fans of the film, including directors John Landis and Stuart Gordon. The features dive into the production, the impact, and the key players involved, and paint an interesting story about the film including title changes and post versus pre-production. The film and features deliver the goods in this Olive Signature release.

Description: 
“They’re already here! You’re next!” With these chilling words, Invasion of the Body Snatchers sounded a clarion call to the dangers of conformity, paranoia, and mass hysteria at the heart of 1950s American life. Considered one of the greatest science fiction films ever made, Invasion of the Body Snatchers stars Kevin McCarthy (Academy Award® nominee, Best Supporting Actor, Death of A Salesman – 1952) as Miles Bennell, a doctor in a small California town whose patients are becoming increasingly overwrought, accusing their loved ones of being emotionless imposters. They’re right! Plant-like aliens have invaded Earth, taking possession of humans as they sleep and replicating them in giant seed pods. Convinced that a catastrophic epidemic is imminent, Bennell, in a terrifying race for his life, must warn the world of this deadly invasion of the pod people before it’s too late.

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, directed by the accomplished Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, The Shootist) and co-starring Dana Wynter (Airport), Carolyn Jones (A Hole in the Head), Larry Gates (The Sand Pebbles) and King Donovan (The Enforcer), was photographed by Academy Award nominee Ellsworth Fredericks (Best Cinematography, Sayonara – 1958) with production design by Academy Award winner Ted Haworth (Best Art Direction, Sayonara – 1958).

OLIVE SIGNATURE FEATURES

New High-Definition digital restoration
Audio Commentary by film historian Richard Harland Smith
Audio Commentary by actors Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter, and filmmaker Joe Dante
“The Stranger in Your Lover’s Eyes” – A two-part visual essay with actor and son of director Don Siegel, Kristoffer Tabori, reading from his father’s book A Siegel Film
“The Fear is Real” – Filmmakers Larry Cohen and Joe Dante on the film’s cultural significance
“I No Longer Belong: The Rise and Fall of Walter Wanger” – Film scholar and author Matthew Bernstein discusses the life and career of the film’s producer
“Sleep No More: Invasion of the Body Snatchers Revisited” – An appreciation of the film featuring actors Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter, along with comments from film directors and fans, John Landis, Mick Garris, and Stuart Gordon
“The Fear and the Fiction: The Body Snatchers Phenomenon” – Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter, along with film directors John Landis, Mick Garris and Stuart Gordon, discuss the making of the film, its place in history, and its meaning
1985 archival interview with Kevin McCarthy hosted by Tom Hatten
“Return to Santa Mira” – An exploration of the film’s locations
“What’s In a Name?” – On the film’s title
Gallery of rare documents detailing aspects of the film’s production including the never-produced opening narration to have been read by Orson Welles
Essay by author and film programmer Kier-La Janisse
Original theatrical trailer
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 Olive Films – https://olivefilms.com/
 
“Invasion of the Body Snatchers” Signature Edition Blu-Ray – https://olivefilms.com/product/invasion-of-the-body-snatchers-olive-signature-blu-ray/

Praised by Japanese film critics and much admired by his contemporaries Akira Kurosawa and Yasujirô Ozu, Tomu Uchida nonetheless remains a little-known in the west. His 1955 masterpiece Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji is an excellent entry point for the newcomer. Set during the Edo period, Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji is a tragicomic road movie of sorts, following a samurai, his two servants - including spear-carrier Genpachi (Chiezô Kataoka) - and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution. Winner of a prestigious Blue Ribbon Award for supporting actor - and Kurosawa regular - Daisuke Katô, Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji is a film deserving of much wider international recognition.

Bonus Materials
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
Original uncompressed mono audio
Optional newly translated English subtitles
Brand-new audio commentary by Japanese cinema expert Jasper Sharp, recorded exclusively for this release
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Corey Brickley
FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by critic and filmmaker James Oliver

Arrow Video – http://www.arrowvideo.com/
 
“Bloody Speak at Mount Fuji” Blu-Ray – https://mvdshop.com/products/bloody-spear-at-mount-fuji-blu-ray

​SYNOPSIS
Psycho-Biddy!

Warning: Prepare to reach your Shock-Limit!

The original scream queen delivers in two classic campy thrillers from the '60s, STRAIT-JACKET and BERSERK.

STRAIT-JACKET
Movie queen Joan Crawford (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?) gives a terrific performance in this chiller from pioneer horror movie producer William Castle. Lucy Harbin (Crawford) goes berserk when she finds her husband in bed with another woman. Lucy axes the couple to death and spends twenty years in a mental institution for murder. After she is released, she moves in with family and hopes her nightmare is over... but a string of ax murders suddenly start occurring in the neighborhood and police think Lucy has reverted to her old ways. 

BERSERK
Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce) stars as Monica Rivers, the owner of a traveling circus plagued by a series of mysterious deaths. When a high-wire performer becomes the first victim, he is replaced by an even more daring aerialist who begins a romance with Monica. Their relationship draws envy from her business manager who is the brutal killer's next victim. As the police begin to investigate, bigger audiences flock to the show. The mystery swirls as a cast of suspects and motives rage with jealousy and revenge.

Mill Creek Entertainment – https://www.millcreekent.com/
 
Psych Biddy Double Feature Blu-Ray “Strait-Jacket” and “Berserk” – https://www.amazon.com/Strait-Jacket-Berserk-Double-Feature-Blu-ray/dp/B07CZFPYX9/

​IT'S NOT HUMAN, AND IT'S GOT AN AXE!
Six campers jaunt off to North Point, where they're promptly stalked and killed by a ghoulish man who ultimately is just looking for a little love.

“The Prey” VHS – https://www.amazon.com/Prey-VHS-Steve-Bond/dp/6301934547/

Years after terrorizing a small Texas community, the God's Hand Killer has returned - leaving in his wake a perplexing trail of fear and death. Convinced that he knows the killer's identity, Fenton Meiks shows up at FBI Headquarters, intent on putting an end to the murderous rampage and relieving his conscience of his family's sinister secrets.
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Features
Audio Commentaries With Director Bill Paxton And Writer Brent Hanley
Production Commentary With Arnold Glassman, David Krischner And Brian Tyler
Anatomy Of A Scene Featurette
The Making Of
Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary
Storyboards
Photo Gallery

“Frailty” Blu-Ray – https://www.amazon.com/Frailty-Blu-ray-Bill-Paxton/dp/B002NPY7F4

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Question of the Week 
What Actor or Actress died before their time that you would have liked to see live a lot longer? 
Also name a filmmaker you would have loved to see them work with if they would have lived. 

Italy, 1979. Director: Ruggero Deodato. Robert Kerman, Carl Yorke, Francesca Ciardi, Luca Barbereschi, Salvatore Basile, Perry Pirkanen. 96 Mins.

Banned and heavily censored throughout the world, here is a film that surpasses its reputation as a shotgun blast to the senses.

CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST presents the ‘found footage’ of four documentary filmmakers who experience brutal death at the hands of a savage South American tribe of flesh-eaters. The footage is so intense so graphic and so unflinching in its realism that the director and producer of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST were arrested on its original release and the film was seized.

Predating THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT in its use of ‘found footage’,  CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST also served as a key inspiration for Eli Roth’s THE GREEN INFERNO.

Grindhouse Releasing’s definitive version of Deodato’s masterwork is coming soon to Blu-ray with expanded bonus features. Not for the weak of stomach, the film’s horrifying power cannot be denied.

Be forewarned: This is the one that goes ALL THE WAY!

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​Blu-Ray 
1. Killer’s Moon
2. The Asphyx 
3. The Blind Beast Terror
4. The Diabolical Dr. Z
5. Bad Ronald 
6. Revenge of the Cheerleaders
7. Murders in the Rue Morgue/ The Dunwich Horror 
8. Phantom of the Opera 1989
9. The Barn 
10. Bong of the Living Dead

​Tales from the Hood 2 – 2018 – Rusty Cundieff/Darin Scott
Invasion of the Body Snatchers – 1956 – Don Siegel 
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji – 1955 – Tomu Uchida
Strait-Jacket – 1964 – William Castle 
Berserk – 1967 – Jim O'Connolly
The Prey – 1984 – Edwin Brown
Frailty – 2001 – Bill Paxton  
Cannibal Holocaust – 1980 – Ruggero Deodato 

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Time Stamps
“Schlock” Review – 1:13
“Spontaneous Combustion” Review – 6:00
“Beyond the Valley of Belief” Review – 11:23
“Beyond the Valley of Belief Vol 2: Fritz on the Run” Review – 15:06
The VHS Voyage “Deadline” Review – 19:00
“The Aftermath (1985)” Pick a movie Review – 25:10
Pick a movie drawing – 29:14
Q&A –30:14
Severin Contest information and answers for the contest – 33:42
Update – 38:05
Cinema Wasteland October 2018 Footage – 45:35
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“The Bad Man” Blu-Ray Preorder Link – https://scottschirmer.com/collections/complete-catalog/products/the-bad-man-blu-ray

Cinema Wasteland Convention – https://www.cinemawasteland.com/

A love stranger than King Kong!

From writer/director John Landis, the mind behind The Blues Brothers and An American Werewolf in London, comes a love story that transcends the boundaries of nature and good taste - the one and only Schlock! Carnage! Terror! Banana skins! The mighty prehistoric ape Schlocktropus has emerged from hiding to embark on a full-scale rampage across a quiet Southern Californian suburb. The police are baffled. The army is powerless. The body count is rising. But when Schlocktropus encounters a kindly blind woman (Eliza Garrett, National Lampoon's Animal House) who sees beyond his grotesque visage, the homicidal simian is presented with a chance at redemption... Shot over twelve days on a micro-budget, Schlock launched the careers of both Landis and legendary effects makeup artist Rick Baker (Videodrome). An uproarious pastiche of monster movies, packed to the gills with irreverent humor and biting satire, Schlock serves as the outrageous missing link between the creature features of yesteryear and its creators' subsequent varied and celebrated careers.

Bonus Materials
Audio commentary by writer/director John Landis and makeup artist Rick Baker
New video interview with author and critic Kim Newman
Birth of a Schlock, a 2017 video interview with John Landis
Archival video interview with cinematographer Bob Collins
1972, 1979 and 1982 US theatrical trailers
US radio spots

Arrow Video – http://www.arrowvideo.com/
 
“Schlock” Blu-Ray – https://mvdshop.com/products/schlock-blu-ray

From the director of POLTERGEIST!

Amateur actor Sam Kramer discovers he is cursed with the power of pyrokinesis. This unruly talent attracts the attention of father figure and local scientist Lew Orlander but Sam's fire conjuring skills grow out of control after a conspiracy relating to his ability is exposed. Sam sets out to learn the origins of his curse in an attempt to suppress his fiery temperament.

Bonus Materials
Official BluRay Release
A Cult Classic!

“Spontaneous Combustion” Blu-Ray – https://mvdshop.com/products/spontaneous-combustion-blu-ray

Beyond The Valley Of Belief is an anthology series unlike any other. Volume 1, which was filmed LIVE on Halloween Night presents you, the viewer with 5 original stories that could be REAL, or UNREAL. That’s for you to decide.

Beyond The Valley Of Belief Volume 2 picks up a few months later that gives you the Christmas episode you have been asking for! This one has 4 stories that are Beyond anybody’s Belief!

Come, take a journey into the unknown and go Beyond….if you DARE!

Blu Ray includes:
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF BELIEF Vol. 1 (new color corrected transfer)
-BTS/Outtakes
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF BELIEF Vol. 2: FRITZ ON THE RUN (Brand new feature length anthology)
-BTS/Outtakes

Rock Bottom Video – http://rockbottomvideo.com/
 
“Beyond the Valley of Belief Vol. 1 and Vol. 2” Blu-Ray Set – http://rockbottomvideo.com/product/beyond-the-valley-of-belief-vol-2-blu-ray-preorder/

HIS OBSESSION WAS TO CREATE THE ULTIMATE HORROR STORY… HIS CURSE WAS TO LIVE IT.
A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world and loses his grip, he also loses his wife and his children's respect, and critics tear him apart. The final undoing of this screenwriter is a deadline that must be met at all costs, costs that perhaps are too great.
 
“Deadline” VHS – https://www.amazon.com/Deadline-Stephen-Young/dp/B000P998TA/

"The Afterman" is about a guy who lived alone in an atomic fallout shelter after the A-Bomb was dropped, so he can't read, write or speak. 20 years later the shelter opens and he wanders into a barbaric world full of sex and depravity. The film is done completely without dialogue and it offers some wall-to-wall sleaze including graphic nudity, homosexual rape and forced blow-job.

“The Aftermath” 25th Anniversary Edition – https://www.amazon.com/Afterman-After-NON-USA-FORMAT-Reg-0/dp/B00415L4O6

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Question of the week
What is your favorite Severin Films release and why? 

​Answer the question above either on the comments sections below or on YouTube to be entered in a chance to win "Anthropophagus" and "Absurd" on Blu-Ray!

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Update 
Blu-Ray 
1. Eyeball
2. Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trick Baby
3. Erotic Nights of the Living Dead
4. The Changeling 
5. Dracula A.D. 1972
6. Turbo Kid
7. Welcome to the Dollhouse
8. Taste the Blood of Dracula 
9. Blood Fest 
10. The Man Who Could Cheat Death 
11. Molly
12. The Bad Man
13. City of Industry 
14. Grizzle 
15. The Church 
16. The Night Strangler
17. The Night Stalker
18. Trilogy of Terror
19. Manhunter
20. Child’s Play 
21. Invasion USA
22. Firestarter
23. The Legacy 
24. Carrie/Rage: Carrie 2
25. Hardware
26. Razorback
27. Violent Instinct
28. The Big F
29. Gay for Pray
30. Guardia De Male 
31. Fangboner
32. Rampart
33. Happy Death Day
34. Furious 
35. Aftermath
36. All the Boys Love Mandy Lane
37. Bait 3D
DVDS
38. Loving a Vegetable 
39. Cannibal Apocalypse
40. Ninja Zombie
41. Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2: She-Cat Gambler
42. Wandering Ginza Butterfly 
43. Arson Pink Presents: Haley Jay Madison
44. Androgynym 
45. Dead American Woman  

​Schlock – 1973 – John Landis
Spontaneous Combustion – 1990 – Tobe Hooper 
Beyond the Valley of Belief – 2017 – Brian Papandrea
Beyond the Valley of Belief Vol. 2: Fritz on the Run – 2018 – Brian Papandrea
Deadline – 1984 – Mario Azzopardi
The Aftermath – 1985 – Rob Van Eyck