DVD and Blu-ray Releases: July 28, 2015
Sean Brickley
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Well, I wouldn’t necessarily recommend you clear your calendars for a huge release list this week, my friends. We’ve only got 7 releases to discuss, so I will make it quick. First, Eaten Alive had an initial release date scheduled for today, but it has been pushed back to next week. Check back on the 4th of August for more info on that title.
As mentioned last week, the Tales of the Supernatural Extended Uncut DVD is coming out this week, but not on the 28th. It will be released on the 31st, just as the Blu-ray was released later last week. So, be on the lookout for that on Friday.
The majority of our releases this week are pretty much classics, starting with some 1960’s German titles down in the Collections section. This week also sees the DVD release of Tango of Perversion as well as the Blu-ray and DVD releases for 1972’s The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein.
There is also a documentary, in the way of Lost Soul, which focuses on the extremely problematic production of 1996’s Island of Doctor Moreau. With interviews from members of the cast, you can gain a new perspective on that adaptation of the classic H.G. Wells story.
That’s basically this entire week in a nutshell. Check back with us next week, as we’re looking at around 14 releases for the 4th. As always, pleasant viewing, folks.
MOVIES
Dawn of the Crescent Moon (2014)
Starring:
Barry Corbin, Kurt Cole
Synopsis:
Friday Lunch Productions presents a supernatural thriller about five college students who travel to a small Texas town with hope of uncovering the truth behind an old Comanche legend. It’s not long before the students begin to realize that the legend is much more than local folklore when they come face-to-face with their own pasts and the legend itself.
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The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1972)
Starring:
Howard Vernon, Beatriz Savón, Britt Nichols, Anne Liberty, Alberto Dalbés
Synopsis:
After the death of Victor Frankenstein (Dennis Price), two figures vie for control of his metallic-skinned monster (Fernando Bilbao) and the radical technology that created him: the scientist’s daughter, Vera (Beatriz Savón), and the immortal wizard Cagliostro (Howard Vernon), who is assisted by a blind bird-woman with an unquenchable thirst for blood (Anne Libert).
With The Erotic Rites Of Frankenstein, controversial filmmaker Jess Franco merged his fondness for old-school horror with his unique and perverse tastes in sex and violence, partly inspired by the garish adult European comics of the early 1970s.
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Ghost Town (1988)
Starring:
Bruce Glover, Catherine Hickland
Synopsis:
This interesting fusion of the horror and Western genres involves a modern-day sheriff (Franc Luz) whose search for a missing heiress leads him into the title locale, a frontier-age Arizona township whose residents are cursed with immortality. He eventually discovers that the abductee (Catherine Hickland) has been spirited off to the lair of an evil black-clad gunslinger (Jimmie F. Skaggs), who sees her as the reincarnation of the dance-hall girl he murdered a hundred years before.
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Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2015)
Starring:
Richard Stanley, Fairuza Balk, Marco Hofschneider, Robert Shaye, Edward R. Pressman
Synopsis:
In 1995, visionary writer/director Richard Stanley (Hardware, Dust Devil) got the green light for his dream project: An epic adaptation of H.G. Wells The Island Of Doctor Moreau starring Marlon Brando and Val Kilmer. But only days into production, an unprecedented storm of natural disasters, monstrous egos and disturbing imagery along with chaos, insanity and witchcraft would trigger perhaps the most infamous behind-the-scenes catastrophe in modern movie history. Now director/producer David Gregory (The Theatre Bizarre, Plague Town) reveals the untold story behind one of the all-time greatest cinematic train wrecks (Variety) in this wonderfully weird and gripping (Entertainment Weekly) documentary featuring never-before-seen footage, startling new interviews with actors Fairuza Balk and Rob Morrow, studio executives, crew members and for the first time ever the notoriously reclusive Stanley himself, plus nearly 2 hours of exclusive Bonus Features.
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Tales of the Supernatural – Extended UNCUT Version (2014) (July 31st)
Starring:
Bruce Payne, Jon Campling, Patrick Rowe, Laura Penneycard, Giles Alderson
Synopsis:
The film consists of six supernatural tales (Disturbance, The Hike, Bryan’s Daughter, The Book, Naked and Paralysis) linked together by a demon who is intent on collecting human souls.
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Tango of Perversion (1973)
Starring:
Larry Daniels, Erika Raffael, Dorothy Moore, Vagelis Voulgaridis
Synopsis:
The Tango club is the favorite hangout for a group of swingers who live for nothing but pleasure. Rosita, a beautiful lesbian, seduces Joanna by giving her dope. Stathis, Joanna’s sleazy boyfriend catches the two women in bed together and takes his brutal revenge on them, ending in Rosita’s death. All this happens in the house of Joachim, a rich playboy who gets his kicks by secretly filming Stathis having sex with girls from the Tango club. Joachim believes he is impotent, until he makes love to Rosita’s dead body. After that, things start to get weird… Sex, drugs, necrophilia, voyeurism and a dose of Greek psychedelia, this film has it all.
One of the legendary exploitation films of the early 1970s now makes its US home video debut in a brand new print, complete and uncut.
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COLLECTIONS
Strangler of the Tower / Monster of London City Double Feature
Starring:
Ady Berber, Birgit Bergen, Christa Linder, Robert A. Stemmle, Bryan Edgar Wallace
Synopsis:
We present a double-dose of German Krimi terror and mystery as Phantom Killers stalk the night! You’ll shudder in fear as Christa Linder (Miss Austria of 1962) is terrorized by a cult of masked villains in Strangler Of The Tower (1966), a chiller which follows the fate of those who desecrate a pagan temple; the price they must pay…is death! Then you’ll run for the hills as the spirit of Jack the Ripper seems to return to haunt the streets in Monster Of London City (1964, based on an Edgar Wallace story! Stars Marianne Koch, Hans Nielsen, Hansjörg Felmy. Mastered from a Progressive Scan HD Film Transfer.
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