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OnVideo's Guide to DVDs DVD Resources Links to DVD news, information and sales sites. Catalogs of DVDs released 1999 -- 2006 DVD Releases October 2024 October 1 October 8 October 15 October 22 October 29 August 2024 September 2024 November 2024 December 2024 January 2025 October 1 Down Below (2024) Eric Roberts, Hutch Dano, Christopher Livingston, Doug Jones, Bai Ling. On the 20th anniversary of the gruesome Christmas Eve murders at St. Agnes church, a demonic preacher returns to haunt that same town's residents.Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. (Gravitas Ventures). End of the Rope (2023) Joseph Gray, Chris Bylsma, Nick Saxton. When a sociopathic hired hand murders an entire family, the town of Schafer, North Dakota, rises up to take justice into their own hands. Based on the true story of the infamous Charles Bannon case of 1931. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. (Well Go USA ). Advertisement National Anthem (2023) Charlie Plummer, Eve Lindley, Rene Rosado, Mason Alexander Park, Robyn Lively. A 21-year old construction worker in rural New Mexico joins a community of queer ranchers and rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, Digital, VOD. (Decal). Sebastian (2024 -- UK) Ruaridh Mollica, Hiftu Quasem, Jonathan Hyde, Ingvar E. Sigurdsson, Dylan Brady. Max is a 25-year-old writer living in London and paying his dues working at a literary magazine. On the cusp of finding success in the local lit scene, by night Max moonlights as a sex worker in order to research his debut novel. What begins as a few furtive meetings soon becomes a secret nocturnal life as his alter ego “Sebastian. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. (Kino Lorber). Texas Chain Saw Massacre 50th Anniversary Chain Saw Edition (1974) Three-disc set includes the new 4K UHD edition of the film, a Blu-ray bonus disc containing new extra features, and an exclusive VHS release of the movie. The special edition collector’s set will be housed in a custom created box, which is a replica of the iconic chain saw from the film. Opening the chainsaw triggers the sound of Leatherface wielding the chainsaw in the film. Each box set will be numbered and only 5000 have been created. This limited edition also features a newly designed 50th Anniversary O-card and brand-new bonus content, including The Merchandise of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Restoration of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 50th Anniversary Chainsaw Edition" will be available for $299.98 exclusively at darkskyselects.com. Formats: 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo. Extras: Read more here. (Dark Sky) The West Wing: The Complete Series (1999 - 2006) In celebration of the 25th Anniversary, all 156 episodes from the critically acclaimed series will be available to purchase in a 28-disc set for the first time on Blu-ray. Widely considered one of the best series of all time, "The West Wing" remains a landmark achievement in television, earning 26 Emmys, including four for Outstanding Drama Series. With its sharp writing and memorable ensemble cast, the show continues to inspire audiences with its intimate look at the triumphs, sacrifices and inner politics of the White House. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Hours of special features including over 20 commentaries, behind-the-scenes featurettes, unaired scenes, gag reels and more. (Warner). Back to top October 8 Beneath the Fold (2024) Jamie Lee, Scott Cohen, Frederick Weller, Jelani Alladin. Gritty story about the dying days of print media, which takes place entirely within the conference room of a financially struggling upstate New York newspaper at the height of the 2007-2009 recession. The plot involves a team of local news people who cope with the realities of a changing world, waning resources, and a clash of personalities. The time and circumstances are detrimental to the staff in all ways but one -- unbeknownst to them, their managing editor was involved in a hit-and-run, and their lack of resources gives him hope he can escape justice not only by the police but by his reporters. As the journalists attempt to investigate the accident that left a special needs man in critical condition, their editor tries to block their pathways to reporting on what he conveys to them as a relatively minor story. Will they uncover one of their own as the guilty? Or bury the lead? Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Freestyle Digital Media). Read more here CIA Drugs R Us! (2024) A comic documentary sequel to the film, "Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA War on Musicians and Activists." The film continues focusing on U.S. intelligence's use of drugs for social control and in the murderous targeting of activists. It particularly covers John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, and Tupac Shakur. The film further details the CIA's Project MK-Ultra involvement with The Manson Family regarding activist actors and The Black Panthers, in addition to detailing examples regarding U.S. intelligence, drugs, and the antiwar Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The film then discusses the CIA's MK-Ultra front group, The Human Ecology Fund, continuation, along with Maryland's Catholic Church sex abuse scandal featured in the Emmy-nominated documentary series, "The Keepers." Formats: DVD. Extras: 18+ minutes of bonus features. (Progleft/MVD Entertainment). The Convent (2000) Complete and uncut, for the first time on Blu-ray. What begins as an innocent fraternity hazing ritual in the depths of an abandoned boarding school with four college students descends into demonic possession, murder and more. Their only hope is Christine (Adrienne Barbeau), a motorcycle-riding, shotgun-toting killer, who also happens to be the infamous killer who, decades before, executed all the nuns in the very same building. Director Mike Mendez continues his adept mixture of profane dark comedy and horror. Featuring appearances by rapper h and horror icon Bill Moseley. Formats: Blu-ray, 4K UHD. Extras: Cast and crew audio commentary; “Lords of Hell”; audio commentary featuring Saul and Dickie-Boy; vintage “Making of” featurette' the original studio Electronic Press Kit (EPK)' deleted scene; gore outtakes; still gallery; promotional trailers; “It’s Always Something With a Virgin” liner notes from Corey Danna. Synapse Films). The Convert (2024) Director: Lee Tamahori; stars Guy Pearce, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Antonio Te Maioha, Jacqueline McKenzie, Lawrence Makoare, Dean O’Gorman. Munro, a soldier turned lay preacher, comes to New Zealand to minister to the first British colonists, but he is converted by the powerful chief Maianui to serve a different purpose. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Magnet). Read more here Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Twelfth Season (2024) Two-disc set with all 10 episodes. Larry accidentally champions an important political cause, takes part in a country club controversy, and attempts to restore his public image in the 12th and final season of this hit HBO comedy series. Formats: DVD. (HBO/Warner). Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Series (2000-2024) 24 discs. This iconic Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning semi-improvised comedy series stars creator Larry David as an over-the-top, self-absorbed version of himself who finds endless ways to make a mess of his pretty, pretty good life. Offering a tongue-in-cheek depiction of the writer/producer/comedian’s fictionalized world and friends, Curb Your Enthusiasm follows Larry's hilariously awkward encounters, social missteps and knack for turning mundane situations into chaotic disasters, often leading to hilariously uncomfortable situations. Larry David has just finished a long television run with his hit comedy, "Seinfeld." Basking in the Hollywood glow, filled with networking contacts and flowing cash, David sits back with his wife, Cheryl Hines, and starts an everyday life living in Los Angeles. Everyday, David runs into people that he should be treating kindly, but his awkward view of the world turns simple comments into offensive remarks. His wife puts up with many antics, but the strain on the relationship is clear. David often turns to his friends, Jeff Garlin and Richard Lewis, for opinions and critiques on his behavior. Although David still writes standup comedy, he is not truly back in the game. His everyday encounters, however, make his life a veritable sitcom for the masses. Formats: DVD. (HBO/Warner). Exhuma (2024 -- Korea) After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains -- and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave. When a renowned shaman (Kim Go-Eun) and her protégé (Lee Do-hyun) are hired by a wealthy, enigmatic family, they begin investigating the cause of a disturbing supernatural illness that affects only the first-born children of each generation. With the help of a knowledgeable mortician (Yoo Hai-jin) and the country’s most revered geomancer (Choi Min-sik), they soon trace the affliction’s origin to a long-hidden family grave located on sacred ground. Sensing an ominous aura surrounding the burial site, the team opts to exhume and relocate the ancestral remains immediately. But as something much darker emerges, they soon discover what befalls those who dare to mess with the wrong grave. Vitals: Director: Jang Jae-hyun. Stars: Choi Min-Sik, Kim Go-Eun, Yoo Hai-Jin, Lee Do-Hyun. CC, MPAA rating: NR, 135 min., Horror Thriller, Theatrical release date: Match 15, 2024, North American box office gross: $2.130 million, worldwide $97.965 million, Well Go USA. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD, VOD, Digital. Extras: Read more here. Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024) Inside of his book, adventurous Harold (Zachary Levi) can make anything come to life simply by drawing it. After he grows up and draws himself into the physical world, Harold finds he has a lot to learn about the real world. When the power of unlimited imagination falls into the wrong hands, it will take all of Harold and his friends’ creativity to save both the real world and his own. Based on Crockett Johnson's best-selling kids book. Vitals: Director: Carlos Saldanha. Stars: Zachary Levi, Lil Rel Howery, Jemaine Clement, Tanya Reynolds, Alfred Molina, Zooey Deschanel. CC, MPAA rating: PG, 90 min., Family Adventure, Theatrical release date: August 4, 2024, North American box office gross: $17.618 million, worldwide $27.856 million, Sony. Formats: DVD + Digital Code, Blu-ray + Digital Code, VOD, Digital. Extras: "How to Draw Harold, Porcupine & Moose"; “Colors Sing Along"; "How Do You Spell Imagination?"; deleted & extended scenes. Read more here. I Walked With a Zombie / The Seventh Victim: Produced By Val Lewton Terror lives in the shadows in a pair of mesmerizingly moody horror milestones conjured from the imagination of Val Lewton, the visionary producer-auteur who turned our fears of the unseen and the unknown into haunting excursions into existential dread. As head of RKO’s B-horror-movie unit during the 1940s, Lewton, working with directors such as Jacques Tourneur and Mark Robson, brought a new sophistication to the genre by wringing chills not from conventional movie monsters but from brooding atmosphere, suggestion, and psychosexual unease. Suffused with ritual, mysticism, and the occult, the poetically hypnotic "I Walked with a Zombie" and the shockingly subversive "The Seventh Victim" are still-tantalizing dreams of death that dare to embrace the darkness. I Walked With a Zombie (1943). Producer Val Lewton and director Jacques Tourneur elevated the horror film to new heights of poetic abstraction with this entrancing journey into the realm between life and death. When she takes a job caring for a comatose woman on a Caribbean island, a young nurse (Frances Dee) finds herself plunged into a mysterious world where the ghosts of slavery haunt the present and witch doctors have the power to summon the living dead. Sugarcane swaying in a moonlit field, the hypnotic beat of voodoo drums, the relentless pull toward death -- the otherworldly atmosphere of this bold reimagining of "Jane Eyre" is as close as studio-era Hollywood ever came to pure dream-state surrealism. The Seventh Victim (1943). “Death is good” is how producer Val Lewton summarized the message of his films, a credo that received its most explicit expression in this strikingly nihilistic shocker, the first film directed by regular Lewton editor Mark Robson. Kim Hunter makes her film debut as a young boarding-school student who, in search of her missing sister (proto-goth icon Jean Brooks), travels to New York’s bohemian Greenwich Village, where she uncovers a sinister shadow world of devil worshipers and murder. And what about that mysterious room furnished with nothing but a chair and a hangman’s noose? With its daring treatment of depression and queerness, "The Seventh Victim" has haunted the margins of cinema for decades, its radical bleakness undiminished by time. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD with new 4K digital restorations of both films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the films and one Blu-ray with the films and special features. Extras: Audio commentary on "I Walked with a Zombie" featuring authors Kim Newman and Stephen Jones; audio commentary on "The Seventh Victim" featuring film historian Steve Haberman; interview with film critic and historian Imogen Sara Smith; audio essays from Adam Roche’s podcast "The Secret History of Hollywood"; "Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy"; railers; essays by critics Chris Fujiwara and Lucy Sante. Read more here. (The Criterion Collection). Killers (1996) Complete and uncut, for the first time on Blu-ray. Convicted killers, the James brothers, Odessa (Dave Larsen) and Kyle (David Gunn), have escaped death row and found the perfect family to prey upon on a particularly dark and stormy night. What the brothers do not know is that the Ryan family have darker and more disturbing secrets than they could ever imagine. What begins as a home invasion turns for a fight for survival from this violently sinister family. From the opening moments set to Iron Butterfly’s iconic “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida” to its blood-soaked finale, director Mike Mendez’s feature debut is a profanely dark, comedic look at America and violence in the tradition of "Natural Born Killers." Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Audio commentary with director Mike Mendez and horror scholar Michael Gingold; original promotional trailers; an alternate ending; a liner notes booklet by critic/writer Heather Drain. (Synapse Films). Kinds of Kindness (2024) A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life, a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person, and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader. Vitals: Director: Yorgos Lanthimos. Stars: Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Hong Chau, Joe Alywn, Mamoudou Athie, Hunter Schafer. CC, MPAA rating: R, 164 min., Dark Comedy, Theatrical release date: June 28, 2024, North American box office gross: $5.038 million, worldwide $13.264 million, Fox. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. Extras: "It Takes All Kinds: The Vision of Kinds of Kindness" featurette; deleted scenes. Read more here. MaXXXine (2024) In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past. Vitals: Director: Ti West. Stars: Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Bacon, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Moses Sumney, Lily Collins. CC, MPAA rating: R, 103 min., Horrorr, Theatrical release date: July 5, 2024, North American box office gross: $13.927 million, worldwide $17.771, million, Lionsgate. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code, VOD, Digital. Extras: "The Belly of the Beast"; "XXX Marks the Spot"; "Hollywood Is a Killer"; Q&A with writer-director Ti West; teaser trailer; theatrical trailer. Read more here. Mummy Shark (2024) Mark Polonia, Jamie Morgan, Jeff Kirkendall, Tim Hatch. Deep within the hidden chambers of an ancient Egyptian pyramid, a shocking discovery is made: the mummified remains of an alien shark. Guarding this creature is a vengeful mystic who brings the beast back to life, unleashing it upon a group of unsuspecting researchers. From cult director Mark Polonia ("Amityville in Space," "Cocaine Shark," "Splatter Farm"). Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Wild Eye Releasing). A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) Terrifying continuation of the "A Quiet Place" universe. When Samira (Lupita Nyong’o) returns home to New York City, her simple trip turns into a harrowing nightmare when mysterious creatures that hunt by sound attack. Accompanied by her cat Frodo and an unexpected ally (Joseph Quinn), Samira must embark on a perilous journey through the city that has suddenly gone silent, where the only rule is to stay quiet to stay alive. Vitals: Director: Michael Sarnoski. Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn, Alex Wolff, Djimon Hounsou, Eliane Umuhire. CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 99 min., Sci-Fi Horror, Theatrical release date: June 28, 2024, North American box office gross: $138.9 million, worldwide $261.7 million, Paramount. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD + Digital Code, VOD, Digital. Read more here. Thelma (2024) When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her. The film is loosely based on a story about director Josh Margolin's own grandmother Thelma Post -- who can be seen in footage at the end of the film and is still alive at the age of 103 -- who was scammed in a similar way until Margolin intervened and saved his grandmother's money. Vitals: Director: Josh Margolin. Stars: June Squibb, Fred Hechinger, Richard Roundtree, Parker Posey, Clark Gregg, Malcolm McDowell, Chase Kim. CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 98 min., Action Comedy, Theatrical release date: June 21, 2024, North American box office gross: $8.182 million, worldwide $8.182 million, Magnolia Home Entertainment. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. Read more here. Back to top October 15 American Homeboy (2024) Mexican American-focused Latino documentary traces pachuco and cholo culture using AI technology to restore rare archival footage and explore the origins of pachuco culture against the backdrop of two wars and the Civil Rights Movement. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. Read more here (Freestyle Digital Media). Captain Planet: The Complete Franchise (1990-96) Fifteen-disc set with 113 episodes from the iconic animated franchise that includes "Captain Planet and the Planeteers" and "The New Adventures of Captain Plane." The series features an all-star voiceover cast including Martin Sheen, Meg Ryan, Whoopi Goldberg and LeVar Burton. The Planeteers, five teenagers from different parts of the earth, each receive a ring of elemental power -- earth, wind, water, fire or heart -- to combat eco-villains everywhere in the world. And when they combine the powers of their rings, a new superhero, Captain Planet, is created, with powers far greater than the sum of the five. Formats: DVD. (Warner). The Crown Complete Series Collector’s Box Set (2016-23) Winner of over 20 Emmys including Outstanding Drama Series, the groundbreaking fictional drama tells the story of Queen Elizabeth II and the political and personal events that shaped her reign. The complete series boxset contains all six seasons of the award-winning show on 24 Blu-ray discs with over 100 minutes of special features and a collectable 24-page photobook with a special message from Peter Morgan. Formats: Blu-ray. (Sony). Demon Pond (1979 -- Japan) Japanese New Wave renegade Masahiro Shinoda transforms a classic Kabuki tale with his own extravagant visual style in this dimension-shattering folk-horror fantasia. When a lone traveler (Tsutomu Yamazaki) stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town’s inhabitants -- including lovers Akira (Go Kato) and Yuri (Kabuki legend Tamasaburo Bando, who also plays the ethereal princess reigning over the water) -- in their hands. Set to the swirling strains of electronic-music pioneer Isao Tomita’s synth score, "Demon Pond" blends theatrical artifice with cinematic surrealism for an aquatic-apocalyptic fable of human love and folly caught in the current of nature’s wrath. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD with 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Masahiro Shinoda and actor Tamasaburo Bando, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: New interview with film scholar Dudley Andrew; program on the film’s special effects; an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson. Read more here. (The Criterion Collection). Family (2017 -- Israel) Eli Danker, Evgenia Dodina, Veronica Kedar, Hen Yanni, Aryeh Hasfari. Home is where the hurt is ... but Lily would do anything just to make it all go away. In a perfect world, she would have grown up with a loving father, a caring mother, a sane sister, and a brother who wasn't madly in love with her. Instead, Lily is staring at four dead bodies in the living room. Desperately in need of an emergency therapy session, she discovers that the only person at home is her therapist's judgmental and insensitive teenage daughter. With nowhere else to turn, Lily once again finds herself locked in a seemingly inescapable battle of wills. Formats: DVD. Extras: Trailer. (Indiepix Classics). Fear the Walking Dead: The Complete Collection (2015-23) Thirty-disc set with all 113 episodes across eight seasons of the post-apocalyptic horror-drama series set in the universe of “The Walking Dead.” It begins in Los Angeles with Madison Clark and her children, Nick and Alicia, in the early days of a zombie apocalypse. As society collapses, they encounter various threats from walkers and other survivors, and in Season Four, collide with the world of “The Walking Dead” when Morgan Jones joins the story. Over eight seasons, the group – including characters like Victor Strand and Daniel Salazar – travels through California, Mexico, and Texas facing enemies far more sinister than the undead, while working to rebuild a sense of hope and community in a devastated world. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital. (Lionsgate). Kill ‘Em All 2 (2024) Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jacqueline Fernandez, Peter Stormare and Maria Conchita Alonso. Seven years after the events of "Kill ‘Em All" (2017), retired spy Phillip (Jean-Claude Van Damme) and his long-lost daughter, Vanessa, are living peacefully off the grid in Italy. But when their whereabouts are discovered by Vlad, the vengeful brother of their previous target, they must do anything it takes to escape his merciless army. On the run, outnumbered, and fighting for their lives, father and daughter unite to save themselves and the village that Phillip once called home. To defeat Vlad’s men and rescue the innocent lives they’ve endangered, Phillip and Vanessa know the job isn’t done until the last bullet is fired.Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Sony). Read more here Pandora’s Box (1929) One of the masters of early German cinema, G. W. Pabst seemed to have an innate talent for discovering actresses. And perhaps none of his female stars shone brighter than Kansas native and onetime Ziegfeld girl Louise Brooks, whose legendary persona was defined by Pabst’s lurid, controversial melodrama "Pandora’s Box." Sensationally modern, the film follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone around her. Daring and stylish, "Pandora’s Box" is one of silent cinema’s great masterworks and a testament to Brooks’s dazzling individuality. New 2K digital restoration. Formats: Blu-ray, DVD. Extras: Four musical scores, by Gillian Anderson, Dimitar Pentchev, Peer Raben, and Stéphan Oliva; audio commentary by film scholars Thomas Elsaesser and Mary Ann Doane; "Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu" (1998), a documentary by Hugh Munro Neeley; "Lulu in Berlin" (1971), a rare interview with actor Louise Brooks, by Richard Leacock and Susan Steinberg Woll; interviews with Leacock and Michael Pabst, director G. W. Pabst’s son; essay by critic J. Hoberman, notes on the scores, Kenneth Tynan’s 1979 “The Girl in the Black Helmet” (Blu-ray edition), and an article by Brooks on her relationship with Pabst (Blu-ray edition). Read more here. (The Criterion Collection). The Project A Collection (1983 -- Hong Kong) Deluxe limited-edition 4K & special edition Blu-ray box sets. "Project A" and "Project A: Part II" showcase director and superstar Jackie Chan at his very best. The swashbuckling adventure series set in the 19th century casts Chan as Dragon Ma, a lieutenant of the Hong Kong military police. "Project A" pits Dragon against a band of pirates who, after calamitous attempts at being captured, have the hero thinking outside of the box. He then decides to team up with an unusual array of cohorts, including a thief, a Navy admiral, and a police officer, to take down the terrorists of the high seas. "Project A: Part II" has Dragon infiltrating the ranks of Hong Kong’s police department to investigate the newly minted police chief, who happens to be associated with the criminals and mobsters he’s been making a show of arresting. Both films feature Sammo Hung, Yuen Biao, and Dick Wei, among others, and an impressive array of elaborate and electrifying stunt work that elevated Chan to superstardom, including the Clock Tower Stunt that many consider Chan’s greatest. The limited-edition set comes in a slipcase with brand-new artwork from Kung Fu Bob with a perfect-bound book featuring critical essays on both films, six replica lobby cards, and a double-sided foldout poster. Formats: Blu-ray, 4K Ultra HD. Extras: Both the Hong Kong cut and extended Taiwan cut of the first film; an all-new interview with stuntman Mars recorded in 2024; archival interviews with Jackie Chan, the cast, writers, producers and stuntmen; more. (88 Films/MVD Entertainment). Back to top October 22 About Dry Grasses (2023 -- Turkey) The latest existential epic from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a masterclass in characterization, atmosphere, and moral and philosophical inquiry. When he comes under scrutiny for misconduct, cynical middle-school instructor Samet (Deniz Celiloglu) fears that his punishment will trap him in the snowy, isolated Anatolian village he has grown to despise. The only ray of hope is his relationship with Nuray (Merve Dizdar, who won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival), a fellow teacher who openly challenges Samet’s bitter narcissism -- yet Samet’s friendship with his colleague and roommate, Kenan (Musab Ekici), who also has feelings for Nuray, hangs in the balance. Using hypnotic long takes and other bold formal techniques to convey the murky motives of its Dostoevskian protagonist, "About Dry Grasses" proves Ceylan to be one of cinema’s most incisive investigators of the human condition. Formats: Blu-ray, DVD. Extras: "Meet the Filmmaker," a new interview with director Nuri Bilge Ceylan; trailer. (The Criterion Collection/Janus Contemporaries). The Beast Within (2024) Kit Harington, Ashleigh Cummings, Caoilinn Springall, James Cosmo. After a series of strange events leads her to question her family’s isolated life on a fortified compound deep in the English wilds, 10-year-old Willow (Springall) follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of the ancient forest. But upon witnessing her father undergo a terrible transformation, she too becomes ensnared by the dark ancestral secret they’ve tried so desperately to conceal. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. (Well Go USA ). Read more here Borderlands (2024) Adaptation of the popular sci-fi video game series. Lilith, an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home, Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy. Her mission is to find the missing daughter of Atlas, the universe’s most powerful SOB. Lilith forms an unexpected alliance with Roland, a seasoned mercenary on a mission; Tiny Tina, a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg, Tina’s musclebound protector; Tannis, the oddball scientist who’s seen it all; and Claptrap, a wiseass robot. Together, this ragtag team goes on a mission to save Tiny Tina, battle alien species, and discover one of Pandora’s most explosive secrets. The fate of the universe could be in their hands — but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other.Vitals: Director: Eli Roth. Stars: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Edgar Ramírez, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Gina Gershon, Jamie Lee Curtis. CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 101 min., Sci Fi Action, Theatrical release date: August 9, 2024, North American box office gross: $15.482 million, worldwide $32.880 million, Lionsgate. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code, VOD, Digital. Extras: "Borderlands – From Game to Screen"; "Meet the Team"; "All Aboard the Death Choochoo"; "Bringing Borderlands to the Screen"; "Badonkadonk Time"; "Fashion and Action on Pandora"; "High Tech Hellscapes." Read more here. Broken Oath (1977 -- Hong Kong) Angela Mao, Bruce Leung. Orphaned and angry, Lotus (Mao) is raised by Buddhist nuns before she is exiled for her violent ways – and skipping classes to improve her martial arts skills. Finding herself alone in the world, she quickly comes to discover the truth of her past: that her father was once a respected member of the Imperial Court who was murdered in cold blood, and that her mother gave birth to her in a jail cell after being unjustly imprisoned for killing one of the culprits. With revenge on her mind and a newfound accomplice in tow (Bruce Leung), she sets out to track down the men responsible for tearing her family apart – armed with both her considerable martial arts prowess and a nest of scorpions with which to poison her enemies. Made at the height of her fame, the first lady of kung fu cinema's choreography was orchestrated by Hsia Hsu ("Drunken Master") and Yuen Woo-ping, one of the most respected stunt coordinators in both Hong Kong ("The Magnificent Butcher") and Hollywood ("The Matrix"). 2K restoration. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: New audio commentary by East Asian film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival); new audio commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema; new interview with actor Bruce Leung; "Patrick Macias on Lady Snowblood" new appreciation by film writer Patrick Macias ; trailer; collector's booklet featuring new writing on Broken Oath by East Asian cinema expert Gina Marchetti and Kung Fu Cult Masters author Leon Hunt. (Eureka Entertainment/MVD Entertainment). Catnado (2022) Erica Rowell Green, Joshua G Otto, Blair Kelly, Serena Salieri, Tucky Williams. The world faces a horrific onslaught of tornadoes, each unleashing hordes of enraged and deadly cats upon humanity. As chaos reigns, a disparate group of individuals have one mission: to stop this feline fury. But against such odds, and with only one life to spare per person, their battle becomes a cat-astrophic struggle for survival. And when the fur flies it will be a meow-ssacre. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. (Wild Eye Releasing). Children of the Pines (2024) Danielle J. Bowman, Sylvie Mohr, Kelly Tappan, Vivian Hunter, Ryosuke Sekoguchi, Vas Provatakis, David Raizor, Donna Rae Allen. Riley, a college junior, is persuaded by her estranged parents to visit. Unbeknownst to her, they've developed an unsettling friendship with her high school ex, while also seeking supernatural healing for their family's deep-rooted issues. Formats: DVD, VOD, Digital. Read more here (Freestyle Digital Media). Creature With the Blue Hand (1967) Two-disc collector’s edition, newly scanned in 4K from original U.S. 35mm Archival elements. Originally released in Germany as "Die Blaue Hand," the film was bought by Roger Corman’s New World Pictures and released in the U.S. in 1967 as the alternate version, "Creature With the Blue Hand." This release is presented for the first time on Blu-ray in North America. A mystery-thriller about a series of grisly murders, it's one of several German films based on the novels of Edgar Wallace, many adaptations of which starred Klaus Kinski. Directed by Alfred Vohrer, the film also stars Harald Leipnitz and Carl Lange. The film follows an inmate (Kinski) who is being held at a questionable sanitarium. When the inmate escapes and a series of murders occur, signs point to him as the killer ... but is he? Based on the novel, "The Blue Hand," by Edgar Wallace, "Creature With the Blue Hand" is a suspenseful ride with many gothic elements and complex plot twists. Labeled as a “Krimi” film, this is a classic example of the genre, combining elements of mystery, crime and horror. The film was later acquired by Independent International Pictures and released to home video in the U.S. as "The Bloody Dead" in 1987 with six minutes of new footage, shot specifically for the release. The extra footage is included in this special edition as a bonus feature, which also includes a HD version of the full film, "The Bloody Dead." Includes bonus film "Web of the Spider" (1971), a classic haunted house tale from Italian maestro, Antonio Margheriti, with Kinski as none other than Edgar Allan Poe! It's a diabolical double dose from one of cinema's most controversial and unique figures. In the film, American writer Alan Foster is challenged to spend the night in a haunted castle by Edgar Allan Poe and his friend, Lord Blackwood. Foster, intrigued and eager for new inspiration for his writing, accepts the challenge. Once inside the supposedly deserted castle, Foster encounters many intriguing characters including the beautiful Elisabeth Blackwood. Foster and Elizabeth fall in love, but things are complicated when Elizabeth reveals that she may not be entirely alive. In a series of increasingly supernatural events, Foster learns about the tragic and sinister history of the castle and its former inhabitants. As the night progresses, the line between reality and the supernatural blurs. "Web of the Spider" also stars Anthony Franciosa and Michèle Mercier and is a remake of director Margheriti's earlier film, Castle of Blood (1964). This version of "Web of the Spider" is the 92-minute U.S. version of the original Italian version of "Nella Stretta Morsa del Ragno." Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. Extras: Two new documentaries, "A Man Of Mystery: Inside the World of Edgar Wallace"; "Kinski Krimis: Inside the Rialto Film Adaptations"; authors and film historians Stephen Jones and Kim Newman join forces for full commentary tracks for both films; Samuel M. Sherman provides an archival commentary track for "The Bloody Dead"; "Creature with the Blue Hand" original 35mm film trailer and recut trailer using restored film elements; new 2024 trailer for Web of the Spider, as well as the original English theatrical trailer for "Castle of Blood." (Film Masters). Cuckoo (2024 -- Germany) Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in the German Alps with his new family. Arriving at their future residence, they are greeted by Mr. König, her father’s boss, who takes an inexplicable interest in Gretchen’s mute half-sister Alma. Something doesn’t seem right in this tranquil vacation paradise. Gretchen is plagued by strange noises and bloody visions until she discovers a shocking secret that also concerns her own family. Vitals: Director: Tilman Singer. Stars: Hunter Schafer, Dan Stevens, Jessica Henwick, Marton Csokos, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey. CC, MPAA rating: R, 102 min., Horror Thriller, Theatrical release date: August 9, 2024, North American box office gross: $6.217 million, worldwide $6.680 million, Decal-Neon. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. Read more here. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) A listless Wade Wilson toils away in civilian life with his days as the morally flexible mercenary, Deadpool, behind him. But when his homeworld faces an existential threat, Wade must reluctantly suit-up again with an even more reluctant Wolverine. Vitals: Director: Shawn Levy. Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, Emma Corrin, Matthew Macfadyen, Dafne Keen, Jon Favreau, Morena Baccarin, Rob Delaney. Leslie Uggams, Karan Soni, Jennifer Garner, Wesley Snipes, Channing Tatum, Chris Evans. CC, MPAA rating: R, 128 min., Action, Theatrical release date: July 26, 2024, North American box office gross: $627.5 million, worldwide $1,317.50 million, Marvel/Disney. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, Cinematic Universe Edition (4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital Code), Deadpool SteelBook Packaging (4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital Code), Wolverine SteelBook Packaging (4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital Code), Walmart Deadpool Corps Pop-Up Packaging (Blu-ray + Digital Code), VOD, Digital. Extras: Extras: "Finding Madonna: Making the Oner"; "Practical Approach: Celebrating the Art of Ray Chan"; "Loose Ends: The Legacy Heroes"; "Wolverine" featurette; audio commentary by director Shawn Levy and actor Ryan Reynolds; gag reel; deleted scenes; “Fun Sack”: "Dr. Deadpool" – Dr. Deadpool, Ph.D. very kindly informs us of the risks of testicular cancer and tries to convince Hugh Jackman to do a live checkup; "Product Review" – Deadpool shows off some toys and trinkets from the franchise, including one top-secret item that may or may not be a spoiler; "Wade is Back" – Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman promote a movie...but Ryan misleads Hugh on just exactly which movie they are there for. Read more here. Despiser (2003) Mark Redfield, Doug Brown, Gage Sheridan, Frank Smith, Michael Weitz. After losing his job and his wife, Gordon crashes his car and lands in purgatory, where he's attacked by fanatics and enslaved souls. He's soon saved by a quirky band of freedom fighters from different historical eras, all of whom died in noble sacrifice. Reluctantly joining their cause, Gordon embarks on a wild adventure through surreal, hellish landscapes to battle the Despiser, the malevolent ruler of the realm. Facing shifting realities, monstrous creatures, and intense car chases over lava oceans, their journey leads to the ultimate showdown to save all of humanity. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Commentary with director Philip J. Cook and stars Mark Redfield and Gage Sheridan; commentary with Sam Panico of B&S About Movies and Bill Van Ryn of Drive-In Asylum; new 2023 interview with director Philip J. Cook and star Mark Hyde; "The Making of Despiser"; deleted scenes; blooper reel; behind the scenes gallery; image and art gallery; trailers; more. (Visual Vengeance). Eldritch USA (2024) Graham Weldin, Andy Phinney, Cameron Perry, Aline O’Neill. Siblings Geoff and Rich Brewer have competed all their lives for parental affection, career ambitions, and romantic pursuits. Rich, the elder brother, always comes out on top leaving Geoff to struggle in his shadow. Tragedy strikes their family in a freak accident. In a panic, Geoff seeks out a backwoods cult rumored to have supernatural powers. The bumbling cult's ritual initially solves the problem, but it soon becomes apparent that they have unleashed a sinister force on their unsuspecting, Midwestern town. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. (One Tree Entertainment). Read more here Gummo (1997) Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America’s rural underbelly, and an elegy in the southern-gothic tradition of William Faulkner and William Eggleston. Shot in Korine’s native Nashville -- standing in for the tornado-ravaged Xenia, Ohio -- the rough-hewn film follows two young friends, Tummler and Solomon, as they ride around town, huffing glue and hunting stray cats, their every local encounter charged with vaudevillian anarchy as well as deep pathos. At once transgressive and empathetic, disturbing and undeniably beautiful, "Gummo" is a one-of-a-kind portrait of angelic and devilish souls caught in a cultural void, circumscribed by poverty and the depleted, alienated spiritual life of late-20th-century America. Formats: 4K UHD + Blu-ray, Blu-ray, with new 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Harmony Korine, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features. Extras: New interview with Korine; conversation from 1997 between Korine and filmmaker Werner Herzog; projections episode from 2000 featuring Korine in conversation with Split Screen host John Pierson; trailer; an appreciation by filmmaker Hype Williams. Read more here. (The Criterion Collection). Hellraiser: Quartet of Torment [Pinhead Slipcase Limited Edition] In the 1980s, Clive Barker changed the face of horror fiction, throwing out the rules to expose new vistas of terror and beauty, expanding the horizons for every genre writer who followed him. With "Hellraiser" (1978), his first feature film, he did the same for cinema. Hedonist Frank Cotton (Sean Chapman) thinks he has reached the limits of earthly pleasure. But a mysterious puzzle box will take him further than he can possibly imagine, opening the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible and summoning the Cenobites, whose experiments in the higher reaches of experience will tear his soul apart. When he manages to escape, Frank returns to the world skinless and in need of help. Now his former lover Julia (Clare Higgins) must kill to make him whole again. But the Cenobites want Frank back, and there'll be hell to pay when they find him. "Hellbound: Hellraiser II" (1988) expands on Barker's original vision as screenwriter Peter Atkins takes Julia Cotton, her step daughter Kirsty (Ashley Laurence) and the sinister Dr. Channard (Kenneth Cranham) into the dominion of the Cenobites themselves. "Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth" (1992) sees Pinhead set loose on the sinful streets of New York City to create chaos with a fresh cadre of Cenobitic kin. Then, "Hellraiser: Bloodline" (1996) sinks its hooks into past, present and future with the story of Phillip LeMarchand, the 18th-century toymaker who made the lament configuration puzzle box, his descendent John Merchant - a 20th-century architect whose most recent building bears a striking resemblance to the lament configuration - and Dr. Paul Merchant, a 22nd-century engineer and designer of The Minos, a space station which is a great deal more than it seems. Brand new 4K restorations of all four films from the original camera negatives by Arrow Films; original lossless stereo and DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio for all four films. Hell has never looked better! Formats: 4-disc Blu-ray limited edition; 4-disc Ultra HD limited edition. Extras: Read more here. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Kung Fu Rascals (1992) Steve Wang’s 1992 Super 8 cult classic available on Blu-ray for the first time. When their village is threatened by an ancient dark lord known as The Bamboo Man, a master thief and his two sidekicks steal a map and set off on a quest to find the only superpower in the land big enough to save their home and rid the world of evil. But these Rascals will have to kick, punch and fart their way through every ninja, monster and mutant in sight before they can restore peace. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: "The Making of Kung Fu Rascals": brand new feature length documentary; "The Reunion of the Three Rascals"; commentary with director Steve Wang, actor Johnnie Saiko, actor Troy Fromin, composer & actor Les Claypool III and actor Ted Smith; commentary with KFR superfans Justin Decloux and Dylan Cheung; "Steve Wang & Les Claypool III Meet Again"; "Chris Gore Interview: Distributing Kung Fu Rascals on VHS"; behind the scenes video diaries; original "Kung Fu Rascals" Super 8 short film; Steve Wang short film: "Code 9"; complete Film Threat Video #6 BTS article; stills gallery; behind the scenes image gallery; 12 page mini comic book - FIRST PRESSING ONLY; limited edition slipcase by The Dude - FIRST PRESSING ONLY; "Stick Your Own" VHS sticker set; reversible sleeve featuring original VHS art; folded mini-poster. (Visual Vengeance). 1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! (2023) An epic documentary about the greatest geek year in films, 1982, featuring stars, directors, writers, producers and pop culture historians sharing their insights about such legendary movies as "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial," "Blade Runner," "John Carpenter's The Thing," "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," "Poltergeist," "Creepshow," "Night Shift," "The Dark Crystal," "48 Hours", "First Blood," "Tron," "Conan the Barbarian," "Cat People," "Fast Times At Ridgemont High," "The Road Warrior," and much more. Filled with exclusive interviews, rare behind-the-scenes footage, and exclusive never-before-seen clips (including Henry Winkler's home movies from the set of "Night Shift") in a fun, lively, no-holds-barred celebration of the legendary movie-going year of 1982. The documentary takes viewers behind-the-scenes to a time when fandom was in its infancy, featuring eye-opening interviews with Ron Howard, Paul Schrader, John Sayles, Amy Heckerling, Henry Winkler, William Shatner, Sean Young, Joanna Cassidy, Keith David, Cameron Crowe, Michael Deeley, Lisa Henson, Dean Devlin, Bruce Campbell, Dee Wallace, Felicia Day, Susan Seidelman, Roger Corman, Barry Bostwick, Marc Singer, Bryan Fuller, Leonard Maltin, Mike Medavoy and more, in front of and behind the camera, from some of the biggest and most influential movies ever made. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. (MVD Rewind Collection). Oddity (2024) Gwilym Lee, Carolyn Bracken, Tadhg Murphy, Caroline Menton, Jonathan French, Steve Wall. When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects a patient from the local mental health institution, where Ted is a doctor. However, soon after the tragic murder, the suspect is found dead. A year later, Dani’s blind twin sister Darcy, a self-proclaimed psychic and collector of cursed items, pays an unexpected visit to Ted and his new girlfriend, Yana. Convinced that there was more to her sister's murder than people know, Darcy has brought with her the most dangerous items from her cursed collection to help her exact revenge. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. Extras: "Behind the Scenes with the Cast & Crew"; "Storyboard to Screen" featurette; "The Making of the Wooden Mannequin Galler." (Shudder). Slingshot (2024) Casey Affleck, Laurence Fishburne, Emily Beecham, Tomer Capone, David Morrissey, Charlotta Lövgren. A psychological thriller starring Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne, SLINGSHOT follows an elite trio of astronauts aboard a years-long, possibly compromised mission to Saturn’s moon Titan. As the team gears up for a highly dangerous slingshot maneuver that will either catapult them to Titan or into deep space, it becomes increasingly difficult for one astronaut to maintain his grip on reality. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. (Decal Bleecker). Read more here Twisters (2024) Ever since a devastating tornado encounter, Kate (Daisy Edgar-Jones) gave up chasing storms across the Oklahoma prairie to safely study them on screens in New York City. Lured back to the field by her friend Javi (Anthony Ramos) and a once-in-a-lifetime scientific opportunity, Kate crosses paths with Tyler (Glen Powell), a charming daredevil and self-proclaimed tornado wrangler whose thirst for tornado-tracking adventures made him a social media sensation. As storm season intensifies with terrifying phenomena unlike anything seen before, Kate and Tyler realize they may need to work together if they are to have any chance of taming, and surviving, an unprecedented outbreak of destructive tornados. Vitals: Director: Lee Isaac Chung. Stars: Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell, Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, Maura Tierney, Sasha Lane. CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 122 min., Action Thriller, Theatrical release date: July 19, 2024, North American box office gross: $267.5 million, worldwide $370.7 million, Universal. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray + Digital Code, 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo + Digital Code, VOD, Digital. Extras: Gag reel; deleted scenes; "Tracking the Fronts: The Path of Twisters"; "Into the Eye of the Storm"; "Glen Powell: All Access"; "Front Seat to a Chase"; "Voice of a Villain"; "Tricked-Out Trucks"; feature commentary with director Lee Isaac Chung. Read more here. Veep: The Complete Series (2012-2019) Thirteen-disc set with all 65 Episodes from the 17-time Emmy Award winning series that follows United States Vice President Salina Meyer (Julia Louis Dreyfus) and her incompetent team as they attempt to secure a legacy, but often instead become bogged down in day-to-day political games in which she puts out political fires, juggles public and private demands and defends the interests of the chief executive -- with whom she shares a uniquely dysfunctional relationship. Formats: Blu-ray. (HBO/Warner). Village of Doom (1983 -- Japan) Masato Furuoya, Misako Tanaka, Kumiko Ôba. Cult director Noboru Tanaka's "Village of Doom" is a classic Japanese true crime story, a chilling reenactment of the infamous Tsuyama Massacre (May 21, 1938), a revenge killing spree in the rural village of Kamo near Tsuyama in Okayama Prefecture. Mutsuo Toi, an emotionally distraught 21-year-old man with tuberculosis who had been ostracized by his fellow villagers, went on a violent killing spree that took the lives of 30 people, including his own grandmother, where he used a shotgun, Japanese sword and an axe. It remains the deadliest mass murder spree in Japanese history. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. Extras: Audio commentary by Asian film experts Arne Venema and Mike Leeder. Blu-ray adds "Dark Asia With Megan: Case #57 Japan's Darkest Night, Tsuyama Massacre"; promotion gallery; theatrical trailer. (Unearthed Films). Back to top T-Shirts for Adults and Kids (Totes, Cups Too) October 29 Caligula: The Ultimate Cut 4K UHD (1980) Completely new edit of the infamous 1980 original produced by Penthouse’s Bob Guccione: It's a scene-by-scene reconfiguration of Tinto Brass’ controversial somewhat raunchy epic chronicling the Roman Empire’s most debauched emperor, starring Malcolm McDowell, Peter O’Toole and Helen Mirren. Tormented by the murder of his family, the young, wary Caligula (Malcolm McDowell) eliminates his devious adoptive grandfather Tiberius (Peter O'Toole) and seizes control of the declining Roman Empire as it descends into a spiral of depravity, destruction and madness. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray (two-disc set with new cut and 1980 theatrical version), four-disc 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo (2 UHD +1 BD + 1 CD limited numbered edition) (Oct. 22), VOD (Oct. 18). Extras: Read more here. (Unobstructed View). Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories A collection of three of Japan's most famous ghost stories that have haunted people for centuries. Kenji Misumi ("Lone Wolf and Cub") directs "The Ghost of Yotsuya" (1959), in which a woman returns from the grave as a horribly disfigured phantom to torment her husband and his new bride. In "The Snow Woman" (1968), directed by Tokuzo Tanaka ("Zatoichi"), a woodcutter must keep his oath to a vengeful female spirit or pay the ultimate price. "The Bride from Hades" (1968) by Satsuo Yamamoto ("Shinobi") sees a handsome samurai so enchanted by a courtesan's beauty that he fails to realize that is a ghost. These three film versions from the Daiei studio form a pinnacle of atmospheric Japanese horror. Their elegant visuals and ominous shadows rival the best of Terence Fisher or Mario Bava, while their iconic female ghosts would greatly influence Asian genre cinema, from Hong Kong fantasy spectacles such as "A Chinese Ghost Story" to J-horror. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Six postcards featuring original archive imagery from the films; limited edition 80-page perfect bound book featuring new writing by authors Tom Mes and Zack Davisson, newly translated archival reviews and ghost stories by Lafcadio Hearn; interviews; commentaries; trailers; more. (Radiance/MVD Entertainment). Didi (2024) In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy (Izaac Wang) learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom. Vitals: Director: Sean Wang. Stars: Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, Li Hua Chang, Aaron Chang. CC, MPAA rating: R, 92 min., Comedy Dramas, Theatrical release date: August 16, 2024, North American box office gross: $4.303 million, worldwide $4.499 million, Universal. Formats: Blu-ray, VOD, Digital. Extras: "The Making of Dìdi Official Featurette." Read more here. Dogra Magra (1988 -- Japan) A man wakes in an asylum with no memory. Dr Wakabayashi helps him to recall his past in which he killed his bride on their wedding day. Part of his memory becomes linked to another doctor, Dr Masaki, and a manuscript, "Dogra Magra." As the two doctors treat him, reality and fantasy become blurred and the patient becomes unsure of his identity or his doctors' experiments. The final feature film by Toshio Matsumoto ("Funeral Parade of Roses") is an adaptation of the celebrated novel by Kyusaku Yumeno, a period set gothic tale with a sense of dreamy dread that recalls Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure and the locked room mystery of Shutter Island. A stunningly shot phantasmagoria by Tatsuo Suzuki, the film is presented on Blu-ray for the first time outside of Japan. High-Definition digital transfer supervised by director of photography Tatsuo Suzuki and producer Shuji Shibata. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Audio commentary by director Toshio Matsumoto; interview with Toshio Matsumoto; visual essay by programmer and curator Julian Ross; "Instructions on Ahodara Sutra" (a popular Japanese chant delivered by Dr. Masaki in the film) by legendary street performer Hiroshi Sakano; trailer; reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Time Tomorrow; limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Hirofumi Sakamoto, president of the Postwar Japan Moving Image Archive and author Jasper Sharp on screenwriter Atsushi Yamatoya plus an interview with producer Shuji Shibata and Matsumoto's director's state; limited edition of 3000 copies, presented in full-height Scanavo packaging with removable OBI strip leaving packaging free of certificates and markings. (Radiance/MVD Entertainment). J-Horror Rising [Limited Edition] Remastered from the best available elements and packed with a host of new and archival extras, this four-disc set presents seven of the genre's most distinctive titles. In the ghostly pastoral horror of "Shikoku"(1999), a young woman returns after many years to her rural birthplace, only to find her best friend from childhood has died by drowning when just sixteen. The dead girl's mother, the local Shintoist priestess, has embarked on the region's famous pilgrimage - but why is she walking backwards? The aftermath of the devastating Kobe Earthquake of 1995 creates fissures in the already fractured mind of a high-school girl in "Isola: Multiple Personality Girl" (2000), allowing an unwelcome intruder to set up home in her head and leaving a volunteer worker with psychic powers to determine which of her personas is the fake one. In "Inugami" (2001) a teacher finds himself drawn to a local papermaker, only to find himself the subject of some hostility from her extended family, who are rumored to be the descendants of the guardians of ancient evil canine spirits. Megumi Okina ("Ju-On: The Grudge") plays the art designer for a horror-themed videogame in the innovative St. John's Wort (2001), who is forced to confront her childhood traumas when her colleagues ask her to gather visual materials from the creepy gothic mansion she has inherited from her estranged artist father. "Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman" (2007)features the titular predatory murderess drawn from urban legend, where it turns out home isn't the safest place for her potential child victims in this disturbing supernatural horror. A new craze for wearing ceramic masks sweeps the students of a high school, unleashing a wave of anonymous juvenile delinquency amongst the literal fashion-victims of "Persona" (2000). Last but not least, the chilling "Noroi: The Curse" (2005) adopts a pseudo-documentary format as an investigative reporter into paranormal phenomena is forced to confront horrors beyond his wildest imagination after learning about an ancient folkloric demon. Formats: Blu-ray. Extras: Read more here. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Made In England: The Films Of Powell & Pressburger (2024 -- UK) Documentary in which Martin Scorsese tells the story of his lifelong love-affair with the movies of Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, including "The Life and Death Of Colonel Blimp," "Black Narcissus," "The Red Shoes" and "The Tales of Hoffmann." “Certain films you simply run all the time and you live with them.” Scorsese says. “As you grow older they grow deeper. I’m not sure how it happens, but it does. For me, that body of work is a wondrous presence, a constant source of energy, and a reminder of what life and art are all about.” Drawing on a rich array of archive material, Scorsese explores in full the collaboration between the Englishman Powell and the Hungarian Pressburger - two romantics and idealists, who thrived in the face of adversity during World War II but were eventually brought low by the film industry of the 1950’s. Scorsese celebrates their ability to create “subversive commercial movies” and describes how deeply their films have influenced his own work. Formats: DVD, Blu-ray. (Cohen Media Group). Trick 'r Treat [Limited Edition] (2007) Dive into the sinister and darkly humorous world of "Trick 'r Treat," written and directed by Michael Dougherty ("Krampus"). This anthology film communes with the spirits of classic horror portmanteaus like "Creepshow" and "Tales from the Crypt," weaving together four chilling tales, all taking place during the same fateful Halloween night. Follow the secretive and disturbing life of a high school principal who leads a double life as a ruthless serial killer; the journey of a young girl (Anna Paquin) looking for love who finds something infinitely more macabre; a group of teenagers playing a prank with disastrous consequences; and an old man (Brian Cox) confronted by Sam, a mischievous trick-or-treater with a terrifying secret. With its interwoven tales of terror and unforgettable characters, "Trick 'r Treat" has cemented itself as a Halloween essential, paying loving homage to the golden age of horror comics and 80s creature features with a slick modern style sure to send shivers down the spine of any fright fiend. Brand new 4K restoration by Arrow Films, approved by writer-director Michael Dougherty. Formats: 4K Ultra HD. Extras: Read more here. (Arrow Video/MVD Entertainment). Back to top All listings are based on information from the home video studios. Some release dates may change and titles may come out after a specified date (with no announcement from the studio). Additionally, some titles may be released with little or no advance announcement. And since all DVDs are priced at sell-through and are available for substantial discounts at both online and brick-and-mortar stores, we only list suggested retail prices for some special editions, box sets and collections. All DVDs are screened on a reference system consisting of a Oppo BDP-83 Blu-ray Disc Player w/SACD & DVD-Audio, a Rotel RSX-972 Surround Sound Receiver, and Phase Technology 1.1 (front), 33.1 (center), and 50 (rear) speakers and Power 10 subwoofer. E-mail OnVideo | Home | Resources | DVD Releases | Calendar | | Reviews | Links | E-mail: onvideo@earthlink.net © 1996 -- 2024 OnVideo. 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