New Blu-ray Reviews

Vertigo 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 1958 | 128 min | Rated PG | Sep 07, 2021 | Martin Liebman

A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's much-younger wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.

Crime / Film-Noir / Mystery / Romance / Thriller / Psychological thriller

Dementia 13 Blu-ray Movie  

Director's Cut / Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 1963 | 69 min | Not rated | Sep 21, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

The family members of an Irish family are being killed off one-by-one by one of their own who is after the family's inheritance.

Horror / Thriller

Bad Dreams / Visiting Hours Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1982-1988 | 2 Movies | 189 min | Not rated | Feb 18, 2014 | Dr. Stephen Larson

See individual titles for their synopses.

Horror / Thriller

Bad Dreams Blu-ray Movie  

Shout Factory | 1988 | 84 min | Not rated | Feb 18, 2014 | Dr. Stephen Larson

In the mid-'70s, a cult group called Unity Field commits mass suicide, but a young girl survives. After being in a coma for thirteen years she wakes up in a psyche ward, not remembering the incident. The psychiatrist tries to help her remember, but she begins seeing the leader of the cult talking to her from the grave, and the other members of her therapy group begin to commit suicide around her. Or is it suicide?

Horror / Thriller

A Clockwork Orange 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 1971 | 137 min | Rated R | Sep 21, 2021 | Randy Miller III

Urban thugs run wild and new methods of crime deterrence are being explored. Career gang member Alex is nabbed by the police and offered the chance to a commuted sentence if he undergoes a kind of surgical therapy. One where his brain does not allow him to execute his violent urges.

Crime / Drama / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Dark humor / Psychological thriller

Perfect Blue Blu-ray Movie  

パーフェクトブルー / Pāfekuto Burū / Blu-ray + DVD

Shout Factory | 1997 | 82 min | Unrated | Sep 14, 2021 | Neil Lumbard

Pop star Mima, her fame and fortune beginning to slide as fashions change, is persuaded to turn actress, reluctantly accepting an ill-defined role in a television soap opera. However, Mima's grip on reality begins to loosen as a result; she imagines that she has an identical twin who has maintained a singing career, and becomes increasingly paranoid after her friends are either threatened or killed. Can Mima unravel the truth before she is driven completely over the edge?

Anime / Horror / Thriller / Psychological thriller / Foreign / Surreal

Master of the World Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1961 | 99 min | Not rated | Aug 31, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Nineteenth-century government agent Strock hires Prudent, a munitions maker and balloon enthusiast, to help investigate the source of a mysterious voice that emanated from Pennsylvania's Great Eyrie. With Prudent's daughter Dorothy and her fiancé Philip, the pair flies over the mountain, only to be shot down and taken captive by Robur. Using his colossal airship Albatross, Robur plans to end world warfare by decimating any country that refuses to lay down its arms.

Adventure / Sci-Fi

Black Widow Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2021 | 134 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 14, 2021 | Martin Liebman

Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.

Action / Adventure / Comic book

Black Widow 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2021 | 134 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 14, 2021 | Martin Liebman

Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.

Action / Adventure / Comic book

Black Widow 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 2021 | 133 min | Rated PG-13 | Sep 14, 2021 | Martin Liebman

Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.

Action / Adventure / Comic book

Fantasm/Fantasm Comes Again Blu-ray Movie  

Peekarama Collection

Vinegar Syndrome | 1976-1977 | 2 Movies | 185 min | Rated X | Aug 31, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

Before becoming the face of Australian horror, with his classics like Patrick and Turkey Shoot, Antony Ginnane, like many independent producers, decided to wet his filmmaking feet in the then lucrative sex film market and devised an ingenious plan to create sexploitation movies that would satisfy the Australian censors, while still being packed with America's biggest sex stars. The resulting works were FANTASM and FANTASM COMES AGAIN. Peekarama is proud to present the world Blu-ray debuts of both FANTASM films, newly restored in 2K.

Comedy / Erotic / Foreign

Fantasm Comes Again Blu-ray Movie  

Vinegar Syndrome | 1977 | 99 min | Rated X | Aug 31, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

An intern and a professional writer at a newspaper agency read over 10 different erotic letters detailing the erotic escapes of various women for their sexual advice column.

Comedy / Erotic / Foreign

Fantasm Blu-ray Movie  

Vinegar Syndrome | 1976 | 87 min | Rated X | Aug 31, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

Professor Jurgen Notafreud explores the 10 most common female sexual fantasies.

Comedy / Erotic / Foreign

Awaken 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Gunpowder & Sky | 2018 | 83 min | Not rated | Aug 31, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

Shot over a 5-year period in more than 35 countries, AWAKEN is a poetic exploration of existence, technology, time and memory. Executive-produced by cinema pioneers Terrence Mallick and Godfrey Reggio, and narrated by Liv Tyler, AWAKEN is an exploration of the Earth, a celebration of Existence, and an Ode to the Cosmos.

Documentary / Music / Foreign

Zola Blu-ray Movie  

@Zola / Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2020 | 86 min | Rated R | Sep 14, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A stripper named Zola embarks on a wild road trip to Florida.

Drama / Dark humor

Theater of Blood Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1973 | 104 min | Rated R | Sep 07, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him the Best Actor of the Year award.

Comedy / Horror

The Thing 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Universal Studios | 1982 | 109 min | Rated R | Sep 07, 2021 | Martin Liebman

A twelve-man research team stationed in Antarctica finds an alien being that has fallen from the sky and has been buried for over 100,000 years.

Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller

Help, I Shrunk My Teacher Blu-ray Movie  

Hilfe, ich hab meine Lehrerin geschrumpft

Echo Bridge Entertainment | 2015 | 101 min | Not rated | Apr 02, 2019 | Martin Liebman

The 11-year-old Felix has shrunk the hated school principal, Dr. Schmitt-Goessenwein, to a height of six inches. Together with his friend Ella, Felix has to get her back to her normal size, while his rival, Mario, tries to stop him.

Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family / Foreign

Royal Deceit Blu-ray Movie  

MVD Visual | 1994 | 103 min | Rated R | Jul 06, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Young Jute Amled avenges his father's murder at the hands of his dissembling uncle, only to then be banished to Scotland for the deed. But Amled has other plans and practices a little deception of his own. A re-telling of the story of Hamlet, based on the original Danish tale, with a much rougher, Viking feel than the classic Shakespeare version.

Adventure / Drama / Period

Rififi in Paris Blu-ray Movie  

The Upper Hand / Du rififi à Paname

Kino Lorber | 1966 | 99 min | Not rated | Sep 14, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

In Paris, a grizzled gold-smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want a piece of the action. To make matters worse, he must match wits with a coin-tossing Mafioso and the U.S. Treasury Department.

Crime / Foreign