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PR Deadball on DVD, Blu-ray & Digital Apr 2

Tak Sakaguchi stars as Jubeh Yakyu, a seventeen-year-old juvenile delinquent sent to reform school after killing over 50 people within a week. To escape the school, Jubeh agrees to join the facility's baseball team in a battle to the death against the sexy 'psycho butcher girls' of St. Black Dahlia High School. This riotous, over-the-top epic of excess is the movie for the psycho sports fan in everybody and more fun than a prison cavity search!

Well Go USA

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Posted by: News Editor - March 29, 2013, 6:50 am - PR
Keywords: action

DVD Review BARON BLOOD (BLU-RAY)

It's finally time to retire my old laserdisc copy of Mario Bava's return to gothic form, as this promises to be a wonderful Blu-ray edition from Kino Classics.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - January 27, 2013, 1:21 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: gothic, estate, sadistic

DVD Review BASKET CASE 2

This second installment of the adventures of everyone's favorite surgically separated conjoined twins takes the weirdness level up a few notches, to say the least.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - January 1, 2013, 4:23 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: frightfully, brothers, freaks

PR Mario Bava's Baron Blood on Blu-ray & DVD Dec 11

After spending several years exploring more contemporary genres, director Mario Bava (Black Sunday) returned with Baron Blood to the gothic as a setting for a gruesome thriller. Working with producer Alfredo Leone, Bava crafted a film that is loyal to the bylaws of traditional horror, but is infused with a more modern visual style.

Kino Lorber

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Posted by: News Editor - December 12, 2012, 8:29 am - PR
Keywords: horror

PR Meeting Evil on DVD & Digital Download Jul 24

An intense psychological thriller that will bring you face to face with pure terror. Samuel L. Jackson is Richie, a mysterious stranger who shows up at John's (Luke Wilson) door asking for help with his car. All too soon, the mild-mannered John discovers he has become an unwilling passenger, trapped in a murderous ride through town and deep into the countryside. When Richie decides to pay a visit to John's wife (Leslie Bibb) and kids, John has no choice but to confront this sadistic and unpredictable killer - But saving his family will ultimately come at a terrible price.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

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Posted by: News Editor - June 23, 2012, 9:48 am - PR
Keywords: drama

PR Texas Killing Fields on DVD & Blu-ray Jan 31

Though the swampland crime scenes are outside their jurisdiction, Detective Heigh is unable to turn his back on solving the gruesome murders. Despite his partner's warnings, he sets out to investigate the crimes. Before long, the killer changes the game and begins hunting the detectives, teasing them with possible clues at the crime scenes while always remaining one step ahead. Directed By Ami Canaan Mann & Starring Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jessica Chastain, Chloee Grace Moretz And Jason Clarke.

Anchor Bay Entertainment

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Posted by: News Editor - January 17, 2012, 7:55 pm - PR
Keywords: crime

PR Nazi Hunters on DVD Oct 25

It's one of the greatest, true detective stories ever. Featuring eight spellbinding missions, Nazi Hunters tells how a select band of secret agents and avengers hunted down some of the most evil men in history... And finally brought them to justice.

Intense, visceral, and narrated by real-life Nazi hunters, every episode tells the story of one electrifying mission. And, from Klaus Barbie's dramatic pursuit in Bolivia, to the audacious Mossad operation to kidnap Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires, recounts how the Nazis finally met their nemesis.

MVD

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Posted by: News Editor - September 22, 2011, 7:36 am - PR
Keywords: documentary

PR Women in Prison Triple Pack - Chained Heat, Red Heat, Jungle Warriors on DVD Jul 12

Mr. Skin and Panik House Entertainment present the unholy trinity of women-in-prison films! CHAINED HEAT, widely regarded as one of the greatest women-in-prison films of all time, finally comes to DVD in a totally uncut, remastered version. This triple-pack of barbed-wire-fury mid-'80s exploitation classics will only be in print for a limited time. CHAINED HEAT (1983) Linda Blair (The Exorcist) stars as Carol Henderson, sentenced to 18 months in federal prison after accidentally killing a man. RED HEAT (1985) Newly remastered in anamorphic widescreen and presented totally uncut for the first time in North America! Linda Blair (Roller Boogie) heads back to prison as American tourist Christine Carlson, a woman wrongly sentenced to three years in a brutal East German penitentiary after being forced to admit to false charges of espionage. JUNGLE WARRIORS (1984) A group of gorgeous models flies to a South American country to scout locations for a photo session. When their plane is shot down, the models are imprisoned and subjected to horrible torture and rape by an evil drug lord.

Synapse Films

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Posted by: News Editor - May 31, 2011, 11:57 am - PR
Keywords: drama

DVD Review EMBODIMENT OF EVIL (BLU-RAY)

Coffin Joe returns over 40 years since he last appeared on screen. Having this little-seen, low budget shocker on Blu-ray is a nice surprise courtesy of the always great Synapse Films.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - May 17, 2011, 3:38 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: sadistic undertaker, ghostly visions, past victims

PR The Clowns on DVD 1 Mar

Extras contain a rare and exclusive short film by Fellini, a video essay on the genesis of the film and a 50 page booklet with exclusive Fellini drawings. Hard-to-find, this 1970 film melds memoir and documentary into a circus of fiction and reality where Fellini delights in the role of ringmaster. The carnival-sounding score composed by Nino Rota, and an appearance by Anita Ekberg (star of Fellini's 1960's masterpiece La Dolce Vita), enhances the Fellini-esque experience.

Rarovideo U.S.

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Posted by: News Editor - February 12, 2011, 11:36 am - PR
Keywords: foreign

DVD Review LONDON TO BRIGHTON

The subject matter is pretty coarse but the performances from the two leads are remarkable, especially young Georgia Groome. Brutal, violent and completely riveting.

Highly recommended.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - September 25, 2010, 6:33 am - DVD Review
Keywords: georgia groome, british crime drama, paul andrew williams

DVD Review INVASION IOWA

Look out, small town Americaóyou're about to be Shat upon.

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Posted by: Joel Cunningham - June 15, 2009, 9:13 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: reality television, star trek, joe schmoe, sci-fi

DVD Review TEMPEST

The fall of the Tsars has proven to be fertile ground for filmic drama, but one of the earlier of these efforts was John Barrymore's Tempest, produced only a decade after the events depicted. With a story written by a Russian, and a screenplay co-written by an uncredited Erich von Stroheim, it certainly promises to be interesting.

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Posted by: Mark Zimmer - July 5, 2009, 8:58 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: russia, revolution, tsar, von stroheim

DVD Review CHANGING LANES

A nifty thriller begins as an allegorical look at road rage before sinking into a trite and unsatisfying final act.

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Posted by: Matt Serafini - June 2, 2009, 7:57 am - DVD Review

DVD Review 3 SECONDS BEFORE EXPLOSION

Kino keeps bringing the Yakuza bon bons, and like a moth to the flame is your faithful reviewer drawn to these DVDs.

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Posted by: Jon Danziger - May 2, 2009, 8:05 am - DVD Review
Keywords: yakuza, gangster, foreign, japanese, crime, kino