New Blu-ray Reviews

The Forgiven Blu-ray Movie  

Vertical Entertainment | 2021 | 117 min | Not rated | Sep 13, 2022 | Dr. Stephen Larson

The Forgiven takes place over a weekend in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of both the locals and western visitors to a house party in a grand villa.

Thriller / Dark humor / Psychological thriller

The Chocolate War Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Rewind Collection

MVD Visual | 1988 | 95 min | Rated R | Sep 27, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A new enrollee at the exclusive Catholic prep school St. Trinity, Jerry tries to fit in by joining the football team, but immediately runs head-first into Brother Leon, a ruthless academician striving for a promotion to headmaster, and The Vigils, a underground student gang that wields a massive amount of power within the school.

Drama

DC League of Super-Pets 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2022 | 105 min | Rated PG | Oct 04, 2022 | Randy Miller III

Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime side by side in Metropolis. However, Krypto must master his own powers for a rescue mission when Superman is kidnapped.

Action / Animation / Comedy / Family / Comic book

DC League of Super-Pets Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2022 | 105 min | Rated PG | Oct 04, 2022 | Randy Miller III

Krypto the Super-Dog and Superman are inseparable best friends, sharing the same superpowers and fighting crime side by side in Metropolis. However, Krypto must master his own powers for a rescue mission when Superman is kidnapped.

Action / Animation / Comedy / Family / Comic book

Identification of a Woman Blu-ray Movie    

Identificazione di una donna

Cult Films | 1982 | 130 min | Rated BBFC: 18 | Sep 12, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A film director finds himself drawn into affairs with two women while searching for an actress for his next film.

Drama / Romance / Erotic / Foreign

Symphony for a Massacre Blu-ray Movie  

Symphonie pour un massacre / The Corrupt

Cohen Media Group | 1963 | 110 min | Not rated | Aug 30, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Five men collaborate to buy drugs, but one steals the money and all the rest are killed as they make mistakes.

Crime / Film-Noir / Foreign

Some Girls Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1988 | 94 min | Rated R | Sep 13, 2022 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Michael is a college student invited to spend Christmas vacation with his sweetheart Gabby and her family. When Michael arrives, Gabby tells him she is breaking up with him, and separate sleeping arrangements are made. Michael isn't lonely for long, as Gabby's two younger sisters show amorous interest.

Comedy / Drama / Romance

Abandoned Blu-ray Movie  

Vertical Entertainment | 2022 | 102 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 13, 2022 | Dr. Stephen Larson

After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify...as the house reveals secrets of its own.

Horror / Supernatural

Bullet Proof Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2022 | 96 min | Rated R | Sep 27, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Vinnie Jones (SNATCH) plays Temple, a sadistic mob boss, in this gritty, white-knuckle action ride. After stealing millions in cash from Temple's drug-dealing hideout, a thief finds a stowaway in his getaway car – Temple's pregnant wife, Mia! Desperate to reclaim his cash – and his unborn son – Temple sends out a squad of hit men and bounty hunters to bring in Mia and the thief. Speed, cleverness, and good aim give the duo a brief advantage, but how long will their luck hold out?

Action

Preman: Silent Fury Blu-ray Movie  

Well Go USA | 2021 | 92 min | Not rated | Sep 27, 2022 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A deaf criminal with a traumatic past and his son must fight their way out of their small Indonesian village after witnessing a horrible murder, pitting the gangster against the mob outfit that employed him.

Action / Crime / Drama / Foreign

Thor: Love and Thunder 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2022 | 118 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 27, 2022 | Martin Liebman

Thor reunites with Valkyrie, Korg and his ex-girlfriend Jane Foster to fight the threat of Gorr, The God Butcher.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Comic book

The War of the Worlds 4K / When Worlds Collide Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition | Paramount Presents #35 / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1951-1953 | 2 Movies | 167 min | Not rated | Sep 27, 2022 | Martin Liebman

See individual titles for synopses.

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

The War of the Worlds 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Paramount Pictures | 1953 | 85 min | Rated G | No Release Date | Martin Liebman

A mysterious object has landed in a small California town. The Martian invasion of Earth has begun.

Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

When Worlds Collide Blu-ray Movie  

Paramount Pictures | 1951 | 82 min | Rated G | Jun 25, 2024 | Martin Liebman

An impending collision with a runaway star signals the destruction of Earth. The government refuses to listen to scientists, but private industrialists finance the building of a spaceship, which will carry a limited number of people to another planet to begin a new civilization. As doomsday approaches, they race against time and the panic of those who will be left behind. The potential pulverizing impact of the collision, the massive tidal waves and devastating earthquakes, and the final cosmic smashup make a chilling panorama of disaster.

Sci-Fi

All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror Blu-ray Movie  

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched documentary / Eyes of Fire / Leptirica / Witchhammer / Viy / Lake of the Dead / Tilbury / The Dreaming / Kadaicha / Celia / Alison's Birthday / Wilczyca / Lokis: A Manuscript of Professor Wittembach / Clearcut / Il Demonio / Dark Waters / A Field in England / Anchoress / Penda's Fen / Robin Redbreast / Blu-ray + CD

Severin Films | 1958-2021 | 20 Movies | 1890 min | Not rated | Dec 07, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The most comprehensive collection of its kind begins with the definitive genre documentary of our time, Kier-La Janisse’s award-winning WOODLANDS DARK & DAYS BEWITCHED. From there, experience 19 of the best-known, least-known, rarely-seen and thought-lost classics of folk horror from around the world, all restored from the best available vault elements with Special Features that include short films, audio commentaries and exclusive featurettes. The ultimate genre exploration continues with the original WOODLANDS soundtrack by Jim Williams and a reading of the classic short story ‘The White People’ by actress Linda Hayden, as well as a 126-page illustrated book curated by Janisse and designed by Luke Insect featuring all-new writings by renowned film scholars, authors and historians.

Comedy / Documentary / Drama / Fantasy / History / Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Western / Psychological thriller / Supernatural / Foreign / Surreal / Period / Coming of age

Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched Blu-ray Movie  

Severin Films | 2021 | 192 min | Not rated | Dec 07, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED explores the folk horror phenomenon from its beginnings in a trilogy of films - Michael Reeves' Witchfinder General (1968), Piers Haggard's Blood on Satan's Claw (1971) and Robin Hardy's The Wicker Man (1973) - through its proliferation on British television in the 1970s and its culturally specific manifestations in American, Asian, Australian and European horror, to the genre's revival over the last decade. Touching on over 100 films and featuring over 50 interviewees, WOODLANDS DARK AND DAYS BEWITCHED investigates the many ways that we alternately celebrate, conceal and manipulate our own histories in an attempt to find spiritual resonance in our surroundings.

Documentary

Eyes of Fire Blu-ray Movie  

Severin Films | 1983 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 90 min | Rated R | Dec 07, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A preacher is accused of adultery and he and his followers are chased out of town and become stranded in an isolated forest which is haunted by the spirits of long dead Native Americans.

Horror

Leptirica Blu-ray Movie  

Лептирица | The She-Butterfly | Limited Edition

Severin Films | 1973 | 65 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A young man wants to marry the beautiful daughter of a landowner who refuses to allow the marriage. To prove his worth, the young man becomes a miller in a vampire-infested local mill.

Drama / Horror / Foreign

Witchhammer Blu-ray Movie  

Kladivo na čarodějnice / Witches' Hammer / The Witch Hunt

Severin Films | 1969 | 103 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Otakar Vávra's Witchhammer, co-written by Ester Krumbachová (Daisies, Fruit of Paradise) from Václav Kaplický’s 1963 novel, chronicles the series of notorious 17th Century Czech witch trials, undertaken using the infamous ‘Malleus Maleficarum’ (the ‘Witchhammer’ of the title), the Catholic treatise on witchcraft which endorses the extermination of witches and developed a detailed legal and theological theory for this purpose. Using genuine court transcripts from the forced confessions of those accused of sorcery and collusion with the Devil, it is a powerful and often shocking allegory of life under totalitarian rule.

Drama / History / Foreign

Viy Blu-ray Movie  

Вий / Spirit of Evil

Severin Films | 1967 | 77 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

In 19th century Russia, a seminary student is forced to spend three nights with the corpse of a beautiful young witch. But when she rises from the dead to seduce him, it will summon a nightmare of fear, desire and the ultimate demonic mayhem. Based on the classic novella by Nikolai Gogol.

Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Foreign