New Blu-ray Reviews

Creature with the Atom Brain Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1955 | 69 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Several years earlier gangster Frank Buchanan was deported to his native Italy through the efforts of law enforcement authorities and rival gangsters who inform on him. While in Europe he meets scientist Wilhelm Steigg, who has perfected a method of reanimating dead people and controlling their behavior with oral commands. Buchanan underwrites Steigg's experiments and uses his technology to wreak revenge on his enemies. Unfortunately radioactive poisoning is a by-product of the process, and authorities use radiation detecting devices like Geiger counters to pinpoint the source of the sinister plot...

Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller

The Werewolf Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1956 | 79 min | Rated PG | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Duncan Marsh, a mild-mannered man, finds himself lost in a remote village called Mountaincrest. His mind is clouded, but he learns later that Emory Forrest and Morgan Chambers, two scientists, injected him with a special serum containing irradiated wolf's blood when he was suffering from amnesia after being in a car accident. The wolf's blood, for unknown reasons, changed the previously gentlemanlike Duncan into a vicious, bloodthirsty werewolf...

Horror / Sci-Fi

Zombies of Mora Tau Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1957 | 69 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

American tycoon George Harrison, his beautiful wife, Mona, and deep-sea diver Jeff Clark are off the coast of Africa hoping to salvage a fortune in diamonds at the bottom of the sea near the voodoo-haunted island of Mora Tau, and are joined by an English girl named Jan. The treasure is reported to be guarded by Zombies, walking dead-men doomed to roam the earth until men stop trying to find the sacred treasure. Here, they are walking the sea-bottom, and there is a large conflict of interest between them and the treasure-seekers...

Horror / Thriller

The Giant Claw Blu-ray Movie  

Arrow | 1957 | 74 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

When electronics engineer Mitch MacAfee spots a UFO as "big as a battleship", from his plane, the Air Force scrambles planes to investigate. However, nothing shows up on radar, and one of the jets is lost during the action. MacAfee is regarded as a dangerous crackpot until other incidents and disappearances convince the authorities that the threat is real. Some believe it is a French-Canadian folk legend come to life, but it turns out to be an extraterrestrial giant bird composed of anti-matter whose disregard for human life and architecture threatens the world...

Fantasy / Horror / Sci-Fi

The Shawshank Redemption 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 1994 | 142 min | Rated R | Sep 14, 2021 | Randy Miller III

Framed for the double murder of his wife and her lover, banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his tenure in prison, Dufresne becomes admired by the other inmates, ultimately befriending another prisoner named Red during the process.

Crime / Drama / Melodrama / Period

Johnny Guitar Blu-ray Movie    

Limited Edition | Masters of Cinema

Eureka Entertainment | 1954 | 110 min | Rated BBFC: PG | Sep 20, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Vienna has built a saloon outside of town, and she hopes to build her own town once the railroad is put through, but the townsfolk want her gone.

Western

Evil Dead Trap Blu-ray Movie  

Shiryô no wana

Unearthed Films | 1988 | 102 min | Not rated | Aug 24, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A TV station employee takes a camera crew out to an abandoned factory to investigate a purported snuff film that was made there, as she gets closer to the truth, she and her friends are subjected to a brutal nightmare.

Horror / Foreign

L' amour Braque Blu-ray Movie  

Mad Love

Kino Lorber | 1985 | 105 min | Not rated | Jul 27, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

A bank robber tries to return his girl, but crazy way of life coupled with insane company make the case only worse.

Drama / Romance / Foreign

The Gateway Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 2021 | 91 min | Rated R | Sep 07, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A social worker assigned to the care of the daughter of a single mother intervenes when the dad returns from prison and lures them into a life of crime.

Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

Great White Blu-ray Movie  

RLJ Entertainment | 2021 | 100 min | Not rated | Sep 07, 2021 | Randy Miller III

A fun filled flight to a remote atoll turns into a nightmare for five passengers when their seaplane is destroyed in a freak accident and they are trapped on a raft, 100 miles from shore with man-eating sharks lurking beneath the surface.

Horror / Thriller / Foreign

The Shakedown Blu-ray Movie    

Masters of Cinema

Eureka Entertainment | 1929 | 70 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Dr. Svet Atanasov

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Comedy / Crime / Sport

Dune Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition

Arrow | 1984 | 137 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 31, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Epic

Dune 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray

Arrow | 1984 | 137 min | Rated PG-13 | Aug 31, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

A Duke's son leads desert warriors against the galactic emperor and his father's evil nemesis when they assassinate his father and free their desert world from the emperor's rule.

Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Epic

The President's Analyst Blu-ray Movie    

Imprint #42

Imprint | 1967 | 103 min | Rated ACB: M | Jun 02, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

At first, Dr. Sidney Schaefer feels honored and thrilled to be offered the job of the President's Analyst. But then the stress of the job and the paranoid spies that come with a sensitive government position get to him, and he runs away.

Comedy / Drama / Thriller

In the Good Old Summertime Blu-ray Movie  

Warner Archive Collection

Warner Bros. | 1949 | 102 min | Not rated | Aug 17, 2021 | Randy Miller III

Judy Garland stars as a Chicago music store salesgirl who corresponds with a man through a dating service. She falls in love only to discover he's a despised co-worker.

Comedy / Drama / Musical / Romance

Silver Screams Cinema Blu-ray Movie    

Return of the Ape Man / The Phantom Speaks / The Vampire's Ghost / Valley of the Zombies / She Devil / The Unknown Terror | Imprint #54 #55 #56

Imprint | 1944-1957 | 6 Movies | 399 min | Rated ACB: PG | Aug 04, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

No synopsis for this title.

Action / Crime / Drama / Horror / Romance / Sci-Fi

The Phantom Speaks Blu-ray Movie    

Via Vision Entertainment | 1945 | 69 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.

Action / Crime / Horror

The Vampire's Ghost Blu-ray Movie    

Via Vision Entertainment | 1945 | 59 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A West African port town is plagued by murders where the victims are drained of blood... and plantation manager Roy Hendrick wants answers. His quest leads to the sleazy local speakeasy run by dapper, world-weary oldster Webb Fallon, who's got stranger-and more unholy-secrets than your average barkeep.

Horror

Valley of the Zombies Blu-ray Movie    

Via Vision Entertainment | 1946 | 56 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Dr. Maynard tells Dr. Terry Evans and his nurse, Susan Drake, about the theft of ten pints of blood from his lab. Later, he is visited by Ormand Murks, a man Maynard had once had committed to an insane asylum and who later died from an operation, and Maynard learns that Murks is an example of living death whose abnormality is counter-acted only by blood. The doctor soon becomes Murk's unwilling blood donor. Murks' brother Fred threatens to expose him and he too is murdered. Terry and Susan find Maynard's body near an abandoned graveyard and this leads them to an estate where a partially obscured sign reads:"Murks Bros.,Undertakers." Susan is kidnapped.

Action / Drama / Horror

Return of the Ape Man Blu-ray Movie    

Via Vision Entertainment | 1944 | 60 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

While on an Arctic expedition, two scientists find the frozen body of a prehistoric caveman. They bring him home to their laboratory, but decide that in order to fully utilize and control him, they must transplant a more developed brain into the caveman.

Horror / Romance / Sci-Fi