New Blu-ray Reviews

The Beast with Five Fingers Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1946 | 88 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2024 | Randy Miller III

Hilary Cummins, the devoted secretary to wheelchair-bound piano virtuoso Francis Ingram, has a passion for the occult. Poring through every book on the supernatural he can find in Ingram's vast library, Hilary begins to imagine strange and terrifying things. But after Ingram's tragic death, the line between reality and unimaginable terror is blurred as the severed hand from Ingram's corpse begins killing everyone in the villa!

Horror

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Arrow | 1988 | 96 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 12, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Elvira, the wisecracking vamp, wants to take her act from the little screen to the glitzy stages of Las Vegas. So it seems a stroke of luck when her great-aunt Morgana dies and, despite having no prior knowledge of the relative, she is a beneficiary of the woman’s will. Thus Elvira makes the journey to Falwell, Massachusetts, to stake claim to her inheritance but is disappointed when she learns that she has only inherited a dilapidated house, a poodle and a cookbook, and finds the conservative folk of Falwell are reticent to welcome a sexed-up and unconventional woman like her. To compound this, she is accused of being a witch! Elvira discovers the evil force in the town and finds that only she has the power to stop its plans.

Comedy / Horror

Night of the Blood Beast Blu-ray Movie  

Includes Attack of the Giant Leeches

Film Masters | 1958-1959 | 2 Movies | 62 min | Not rated | Nov 12, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An astronaut returns from space dead. The base that recovered him is then cut off from the outside world by an alien. The revival of the dead astronaut, the death of a scientist, and the discovery of alien embryos inside the resurrected astronaut's body bodes ill for the survival of those trapped at the base and the rest of humanity...

Horror / Sci-Fi

Night of the Blood Beast Blu-ray Movie  

Film Masters | 1958 | 62 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

An astronaut returns from space dead. The base that recovered him is then cut off from the outside world by an alien. The revival of the dead astronaut, the death of a scientist, and the discovery of alien embryos inside the resurrected astronaut's body bodes ill for the survival of those trapped at the base and the rest of humanity...

Horror / Sci-Fi

Attack of the Giant Leeches Blu-ray Movie  

Film Masters | 1959 | 63 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

In a community nearby a swamp, a local dweller sees a couple of giant monsters but nobody believes on his words. Later, the cuckold Dave Walker finds his slut wife Liz Walker cheating him with his friend Cal Moulton. He chases the couple through the swamp, and forces them to jump into the water. The leeches attack them, and the shocked Dave is arrested, accused of murder. Two other locals decide to look for the bodies of Liz and Cal to get the prize of $50.00 per body, and also vanish in the swamp. Finally, game warden Steve Benton organizes a patrol to investigate the caves under the swamp, finding the lethal giant leeches...

Horror / Sci-Fi

Afraid Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Sony Pictures | 2024 | 84 min | Rated PG-13 | Nov 05, 2024 | Kenneth Brown

Curtis' family is selected to test a new home device: a digital assistant called AIA. AIA learns the family's behaviors and begins to anticipate their needs. And she can make sure nothing—and no one—gets in her family's way.

Horror

Chains of Gold Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1991 | 96 min | Not rated | Sep 03, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Scott Barnes (Travolta) is an alcoholic turned social worker hellbent on saving a young boy named Tommy (Lawrence) from self-destructing when he finds out he has begun selling crack in an organization called YIP, run by Carlos (Bratt).

Action / Drama / Thriller

We Were Soldiers 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 2002 | 138 min | Rated R | Nov 05, 2024 | Martin Liebman

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.

Action / Drama / History / War

Shack Out on 101 Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1955 | 80 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

At an isolated, seaside greasy-spoon cafe live George (Keenan Wynn), the sarcastic owner; Slob (Lee Marvin), the potentially violent cook; and Kotty (Terry Moore), the sexy waitress all the men lust after. Plus an occasional customer, including "Professor Sam" (Frank Lovejoy), Kotty's boyfriend from a nearby research facility. And something's going on under the potentially explosive surface emotions...nuclear secrets being smuggled out of the country.

Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Thriller

The Return of Doctor X Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1939 | 62 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2024 | Randy Miller III

New York newspaper reporter Walter Barnett finds himself out of a job after he claims to have found actress Angela Merrova dead in her apartment—only, the next day, she showed up alive and threatened to sue the paper. Determined to investigate, he discovers her involvement with a strange doctor who is an expert on human blood. Barnett then finds a connection to a series of gruesome murders where the victims were all found drained of blood...

Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger Blu-ray Movie  

Cohen Media Group | 2024 | 133 min | Not rated | Nov 05, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Features rare archival material from the personal collections of Powell, Pressburger and Scorsese.

Documentary

The Walking Dead Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1936 | 66 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2024 | Randy Miller III

John Ellman (Boris Karloff), an ex-convict who is framed by the mob for the murder of the judge who first put him away. Evidence proving Ellman's innocence arrives seconds after he is electrocuted. Officials allow Dr. Evan Beaumont (Edmund Gwenn) to experiment with putting a mechanical heart into Ellman. The device revives the dead man, but he has become a white-haired, monster-faced zombie who hangs out in graveyards and seeks revenge on the conspirators who framed him.

Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi

The Crow 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2024 | 111 min | Rated R | Nov 05, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A modern re-imagining of the beloved character, The Crow, based on the original graphic novel by James O'Barr. Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered. Given a chance to save the love of his life, Eric must sacrifice himself and traverse the worlds of the living and the dead, seeking revenge.

Action / Crime / Fantasy / Comic book

Oddity Blu-ray Movie  

Shudder | 2024 | 98 min | Rated R | Oct 22, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

Tells the story of the mysterious death of a woman named Dani. While many people suspect the murderer was someone from the local psychiatric hospital, the woman’s twin sister suspects something else happened.

Horror / Thriller / Foreign

Flesh Freaks Blu-ray Movie  

+ Kill Them and Eat Them / Slipcover in Original Pressing

Saturn's Core Audio & Video | 2000 | 2 Movies | 80 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2024 | Brian Orndorf

Deep within the jungles of Central America, lost amid the crumbling Maya ruins, lies an ancient secret so strange, so horrible, that only one civilization would be dumb enough to release it ... Ours.

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi

Dìdi Blu-ray Movie  

Universal Studios | 2024 | 94 min | Rated R | Oct 29, 2024 | Justin Dekker

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

Comedy / Drama

1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever! Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Rewind Collection

MVD Visual | 2022 | 165 min | Not rated | Nov 05, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An epic documentary spotlighting the pop culture milestones of 1982 including notable motion pictures, TV, music and video games of that seminal year.

Documentary

Enough Rope Blu-ray Movie  

Le Meurtrier

Kino Lorber | 1963 | 117 min | Not rated | Oct 29, 2024 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Based on Patricia Highsmith's novel The Blunderer. In this drama, two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives.

Drama / Thriller / Foreign

The Crow Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2024 | 111 min | Rated R | Nov 05, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A modern re-imagining of the beloved character, The Crow, based on the original graphic novel by James O'Barr. Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered. Given a chance to save the love of his life, Eric must sacrifice himself and traverse the worlds of the living and the dead, seeking revenge.

Action / Crime / Fantasy / Comic book

The Crow 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2024 | 111 min | Rated R | Nov 05, 2024 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A modern re-imagining of the beloved character, The Crow, based on the original graphic novel by James O'Barr. Soulmates Eric and Shelly are brutally murdered. Given a chance to save the love of his life, Eric must sacrifice himself and traverse the worlds of the living and the dead, seeking revenge.

Action / Crime / Fantasy / Comic book