DVD and Blu-ray Releases: November 29, 2016
Sean Brickley
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This week’s release list appears to still be suffering from a turkey coma. There are only 6 titles, but the next two weeks alone should make up for that with nearly 50 total releases. As a matter of fact, our discrepancy for the week is the Blu-ray for 1979’s classic The Driller Killer, which is shown on some sites as releasing this week but others have scheduled for the 13th of December. I have it listed here but will also have it listed then just to be on the safe side.
Our only other classic is 1972’s Sacrifice!, also known as The Man from Deep River and Deep River Savages. Not only will this Italian gem be released as a collector’s edition Blu-ray, but there’s a limited edition Steelbook coming as well.
Lastly, probably the biggest title on the list this week is this year’s hit Don’t Breathe. This will be dropping on both Blu-ray and DVD.
Remember, keep checking back each week as it looks like you’ll have a lot of choices for the Christmas season. As always, pleasant viewing.
MOVIES
Cell Count (2012)
Starring:
Daniel Baldwin, Robert Mckeehen, Ted Rooney
Synopsis:
Russell Carpenter reluctantly admits his wife Sadie into an experimental treatment facility for her life threatening disease. While locked in this prison-like surrounding they, along with 6 others, are unknowingly subjected to a cure that might just be worse than the disease itself.
Don’t Breathe (2016)
Starring:
Dylan Minnette, Jane Levy, Stephen Lang, Daniel Zovatto
Synopsis:
From the twisted minds behind Evil Dead comes a new terrifying experience. Three young thieves (Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto) fight for their lives after breaking into the home of a blind man (Stephen Lang) who has a dark side.
The Driller Killer (1979)
Starring:
Abel Ferrara, Carolyn Marz, Baybi Day
Synopsis:
In career that has encompassed such controversial classics as Ms. 45, Bad Lieutenant and Welcome to New York, none of Abel Ferrara s films have quite managed to match the shock, extremity and downright notorious nature of The Driller Killer.
Ferrara plays struggling artist Reno, a man pushed to the edge by the economic realities of New York living in the late seventies and the No Wave band practising in the apartment below. His grip on reality soon begins to slip and he takes to stalking the streets with his power tool in search of prey…
Forget Taxi Driver, The Warriors and The New York Ripper, The Driller Killer is the definitive look at NYC s underbelly – a slasher that is as much at home in the arthouse as it is the grindhouse.
MurderDrome (2014)
Starring:
Kat Anderson, Rachael Blackwood, Jake Brown
Synopsis:
A romantic rivalry turns into supernatural terror as roller derby sensation Cherry Skye unwittingly raises a demon murderess from hell. Trapped between the demon’s wrath and the Gates of Hell, Skye has no option but to throw down and sort out this mess in the only way she knows how: in the rink known as The MurderDrome! Equal parts slasher-film, action flick and romantic comedy, director Daniel Armstrong’s love letter to ’80s cinema will have you chanting in your seats, ”Welcome to the MurderDrome!”
Sacrifice! (1972)
Starring:
Ivan Rassimov, Me Me Lay, Ong Ard, Pipop Pupinyo, Prapas Chindang
Synopsis:
The birth of the bloody and controversial Italian Cannibal sub-genre starts here, with this notorious 1972 Umberto Lenzi (Cannibal Ferox, Nightmare City) directed survivalist shocker, presented in its completely uncut, outrageously violent version. Sacrifice! (aka The Man From Deep River, Deep River Savages) stars Eurohorror legend Ivan Rassimov (Mario Bava’s Shock, Lamberto Bava’s Blade of the Ripper) as photographer John Bradley, who ventures into the heart of Thailand’s jungles and is kidnapped by a ruthless native tribe. As Bradley fights for his life, he eventually catches the eye of the Chief s daughter (the beautiful Me Me Lai, who also appears Lenzi’s 1980 gut-muncher Eaten Alive!) and, after marrying her, and after several bouts of brutality, eventually wins the natives respect. Complications arise, however, when the neighboring clan, a horde of bloodthirsty, flesh-hungry cannibals, begin sniffing around, licking their lips at the sight Bradley and his newly conquered tribe mates… Taking its cues from Gualitiero Jacopetti’s hugely popular Mondo Cane films and its many imitators as well as Elliot Silverstein s similarly plotted hit A Man Called Horse, Lenzi’s paean to primitive pain was branded a Video Nasty in the UK due to its relentless brutality, disturbing scenes of cannibalism and upsetting sequences of real-life animal death. Less exploitative than Ruggero Deodato’s Cannibal Holocaust and Lenzi’s own Cannibal Ferox but no less intense, Sacrifice!
The Tenant (2011)
Starring:
Michael Berryman, J. LaRose, Bill Cobb, Jenn Sterger
Synopsis:
An obsessed doctor tries to cure human deformities through DNA splicing, an obsession that pushes him to experiment on the patients at the Edgewood Asylum. Ignoring his pregnant wife Olivia, she comes to see him one night, but everything goes horribly wrong as Dr. Newman watches in horror as Olivia delivers their twins – One is a beautiful baby girl, the other a deformed creature that defies nature. 25 years later, on a dark and stormy night, a van carrying a group of teens from the Roslyn Center for the Deaf breaks down. With a flat tire and freezing temperatures the group seeks shelter making their way to an old abandoned building — the Edgewood Asylum. Little do they know – evil awaits them.
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