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Home- September 14, 2021
Hammer Horror: Four Gothic Horror Films Blu-ray Movie
Countess Dracula / Hands of the Ripper / Twins of Evil / Vampire Circus | Imprint #50 #51 #52 #53
Imprint | 1971-1972 | 4 Movies | 352 min | Rated ACB: R18+ | Aug 04, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
Experience the ultimate Hammer Horror Collection in glorious High Definition. This special edition set includes four gothic based tales from Hammer Studios classic early 70s period and packed with hours of bonus supplements on each feature. This limited hard box edition comes with unique artwork and 5 discs including an exclusive bonus disc. Only 2500 copies available! Exclusive Bonus Blu-Ray disc on the Limited Edition box: FLESH & BLOOD – THE HAMMER HERITAGE OF HORROR DOCUMENTARY This remastered Director’s Cut features stereo sound, new candid interviews, rare clips, photos, home movies and over 40 minutes of additional content added to the film. Well over two hours of Gothic ghouls, gore and glamour. Presented on Blu-Ray, this film has been upscaled to deliver the best possible visual presentation of this documentary.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural
Countess Dracula Blu-ray Movie
Via Vision Entertainment | 1971 | 93 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
To prolong her youth, medieval countess Elisabeth Bathory sends out her lover to find likely young female donors of blood for her to bathe in.
Horror / Period
Hands of the Ripper Blu-ray Movie
Via Vision Entertainment | 1971 | 85 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
An infant girl, Anna, watches as her father, the infamous "Jack the Ripper," brutally murders her mother. Years later, young Anna is now under the care of a fake psychic and has been forced into prostitution. At the end of a seance one evening, a woman is mysteriously killed. Dr. John Pritchard suspects Anna is the murderer but cannot understand how she could do this unspeakable act. Using new Freudian psychoanalysis techniques, Pritchard experiments on Anna and discovers a shocking secret. The spirit of the "Ripper" is alive and well, and may be possessing his own daughter! Can this evil be stopped before it's too late?
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Twins of Evil Blu-ray Movie
Via Vision Entertainment | 1971 | 87 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Stunning identical siblings, one good and the other decidedly evil. One of the young women is a vampire, and the other is the "nice girl next door." When the townspeople decide to burn the vampire at the stake they make a tragic error.
Horror
Vampire Circus Blu-ray Movie
Via Vision Entertainment | 1972 | 87 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A 19th-century village is visited by a traveling carnival whose performers are vampires.
Horror / Supernatural
Prodigal Son: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Movie
Warner Archive Collection
Warner Bros. | 2019-2020 | 880 min | Rated TV-14 | Sep 08, 2020 | Randy Miller III
Malcolm Bright has a gift. He knows how killers think and how their minds work. Why? His father is "The Surgeon," a notorious serial killer who has taken the lives of more than 20 people. PRODIGAL SON follows criminal psychologist Bright as he uses his twisted genius to get inside the minds of murderers to help the NYPD solve cases.
Crime / Drama
- September 13, 2021
Arabesque Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1966 | 105 min | Not rated | Sep 14, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
After being hired by an Arabian oil magnate to decipher a secret message, Oxford professor David Pollock (Gregory Peck) finds himself becoming romantically involved with his employer's attractive companion, Yasmin (Sophia Loren). The duo soon become involved in a deadly chase when they discover just what the secret message relates to.
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Thriller
Throw Down Blu-ray Movie
柔道龍虎榜 / Yau doh lung fu bong
Criterion | 2004 | 95 min | Not rated | Sep 21, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Amid the neon-drenched nightclubs and gambling dens of Hong Kong's nocturnal underworld, the fates of three wandering souls—a former judo champion now barely scraping by as an alcoholic bar owner, a young fighter intent on challenging him, and a singer chasing dreams of stardom—collide in an operatic explosion of human pain, ambition, perseverance, and redemption.
Action / Drama / Martial arts / Foreign
Crazy Fist Blu-ray Movie
Well Go USA | 2021 | 97 min | Not rated | Sep 14, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
A mixed martial arts champion is forced out of retirement for one last fight in order to unravel a major conspiracy.
Action / Crime / Sport / Martial arts / Foreign
- September 12, 2021
The Frenchman's Garden Blu-ray Movie
El Huerto del Francés | Standard Edition
Mondo Macabro | 1978 | 97 min | Not rated | Aug 10, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A Frenchman arrives in a small town. No one knows where he came from. He establishes himself as a moneylender, and turns his house into a brothel. Bullfighters and other types of people frequent the "French garden", but some of them never return.
Biography / Crime / Drama / Foreign
Eloy de la Iglesia's Quinqui Collection Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1980-1984 | 3 Movies | 327 min | Not rated | Aug 24, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Biography / Crime / Drama / Foreign
Navajeros Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1980 | 96 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
A gang of juvenile delinquents lead by a fifteen-year-old boy named 'Jaro' wrecks havoc in Madrid, Spain. A middle-aged prostitute takes a liking to Jaro and tries to care for him, but Jaro is on a path of self-destruction.
Biography / Crime / Drama / Foreign
El Pico Blu-ray Movie
Overdose
Severin Films | 1983 | 110 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
It deals with a duo of inseparable friends turned delinquents named Paco and Urko, together they share drugs. They are forced into street hustling and ever-expanding life of crime. Paco is son of a stiff Guardia Civil Commandant and Urko of an Aberzale Congressman. The protagonists choose to live dangerously and they are forced to take a life of crime to survive and attempt to flee the suburbs of Bilbao.
Drama / Foreign
El Pico 2 Blu-ray Movie
Severin Films | 1984 | 120 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman
Paco, and his Civil Guard father, relocate to Madrid, where an investigative reporter is determined to find the truth about Paco's involvement in the shooting of a drug dealer back in Bilbao, which lands Paco in a lot of trouble.
Drama
Auntie Lee's Meat Pies Blu-ray Movie
Limited Edition Slipcover
Vinegar Syndrome | 1992 | 100 min | Rated R | Aug 31, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
Outside the small, one-cop town of Penance, California, Auntie Lee bakes her popular meat pies, with the help of four nubile nieces and the ranch's blood-simple handyman, Larry. The source of the meat for the pies? Men who are passing through, lured to strange deaths by the nieces - Fawn, Coral, Sky, and Magnolia - who smile, show a little skin, and pretend to be playmates. Closing in on the trail of a missing man is a New York private eye, Harold Ivars; plus, the town's cop, Chief Koal, finds Larry's behavior a bit suspicious. Will the cop and the dick bring Auntie Lee's vocation to a grinding halt?
Comedy / Horror
A Dim Valley Blu-ray Movie
Standard Edition
Altered Innocence | 2021 | 92 min | Not rated | Aug 31, 2021 | Brian Orndorf
A curmudgeonly biologist and his stoner graduate students encounter a group of mysterious backpackers who disrupt their lives in beautiful and surprising ways.
Comedy / Horror / Supernatural
- September 11, 2021
The Tomb of Ligeia Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1964 | 81 min | Not rated | Sep 07, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
Some years after having buried his beloved wife Ligeia, Verden Fell meets and eventually marries the lovely Lady Rowena. Fell is something of a recluse, living in a small part of a now ruined Abbey with his manservant Kenrick as the only other occupant. He remains infatuated with his late wife and is convinced that she will return to him. While all goes well when first married, he returns to his odd behavior when they return to the Abbey from their honeymoon. The memories of Ligeia continue to haunt him as well as her promise that she would never die...
Drama / Horror / Thriller
- September 10, 2021
Mona Lisa Blu-ray Movie
Criterion | 1986 | 104 min | Not rated | Sep 14, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
George is a tough, yet also warmhearted small-time mobster recently released from prison. He agrees to chauffeur Simone, a high-priced prostitute. She enlists him to search for her closest friend, another prostitute named Cathy. During their time together, George slowly falls in love with Simone.
Crime / Drama / Film-Noir / Romance
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover Blu-ray Movie
Beyond Genres #09
Umbrella Entertainment | 1989 | 124 min | Rated ACB: R18+ | Apr 07, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
The wife of an oafish restaurant owner becomes bored with her husband and considers an affair with a regular patron.
Comedy / Crime / Drama / Romance / Dark humor / Erotic
Cold War Creatures: Four Films from Sam Katzman Blu-ray Movie
Arrow | 1955-1957 | 4 Movies | 293 min | Not rated | Sep 14, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman
No synopsis for this title.
Crime / Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller