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The Black Room Blu-ray Movie    

Eureka Classics

Eureka Entertainment | 1935 | 68 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

When Baron Frederick de Berghman learns that his wife has given birth to twin boys, he refuses to drink a toast to them. He tells his courtiers that there is a prophecy that the younger of the twins -in this case born one minute after the elder- will kill his older brother in the Black Room. As a protective measure, he seals off the room in the hope that the prophecy may not happen. Many years later, Baron Gregor de Berghman pleads with his twin brother Anton to return to the family castle. Anton arrives to find the populace in revolt and there is even an attempt on his life when they mistake him for the Baron. There is no doubt that the Baron is evil and eventually kills Anton in the Black Room and takes his identity. That does no mean the prophecy cannot, or will not, come true...

Crime / Horror

The Man They Could Not Hang Blu-ray Movie    

Eureka Classics

Eureka Entertainment | 1939 | 64 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Mad Scientist, Dr. Henryk Savaard, is obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. The police are alerted of Savaard's activities by his assistant's girlfriend. Savaard is arrested, convicted and sentenced to hang. He vows revenge on the judge, jury and district attorney. After the hanging, his assistant claims Savaard's body and uses Savaard's technique on it. Savaard is brought back to life. Now he can seek sweet revenge on his prosecutors...

Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi

The Man with Nine Lives Blu-ray Movie    

Eureka Classics

Eureka Entertainment | 1940 | 74 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are discovered and revived in hopes that Kravaal can indeed complete his cure. But human greed and weakness compound to disrupt the project...

Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi

Before I Hang Blu-ray Movie    

Eureka Classics

Eureka Entertainment | 1940 | 62 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde...

Crime / Horror / Sci-Fi

The Devil Commands Blu-ray Movie    

Eureka Classics

Eureka Entertainment | 1941 | 64 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Dr. Julian Blair is engaged in unconventional research on human brain waves when his wife is tragically killed in a freak auto accident. The grief-stricken scientist becomes obsessed with redirecting his work into making contact with the dead and is not deterred by dire warnings from his daughter, his research assistant, or his colleagues that he is delving into forbidden areas of knowledge. He moves his laboratory to an isolated New England mansion where he continues to try to reach out to his dead wife. He is aided by his mentally-challenged servant Karl and abetted by the obsessive Mrs. Walters, a phony medium, who seems to exert a sinister influence over him. When their overly curious housekeeper discovers the truth about their experiments, her death brings the local sheriff in to investigate...

Horror / Sci-Fi

The Boogie Man Will Get You Blu-ray Movie    

Eureka Classics

Eureka Entertainment | 1942 | 67 min | Not rated | No Release Date | Jeffrey Kauffman

Winnie Slade, a young divorcee, buys an old historic house from nutty Professor Billings (Boris Karloff), who lives there with his daffy housekeeper and bizarre neighbors, in order to convert it into a hotel. She allows them to continue to live on the property - unaware that the Professor continues to experiment unsuccessfully on traveling salesmen, the bodies of whom have filled the cellar. They are joined by a variety of eccentric characters including a quack doctor who doubles as the town's sheriff, Winnie's frenetic ex-husband, an oddball choreographer, a punchdrunk traveling salesman, and a lunatic escapee from the Italian army...

Horror / Dark humor

Dirty Dancing 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Lionsgate Films | 1987 | 100 min | Rated PG-13 | Apr 27, 2021 | Randy Miller III

In the summer of 1963, innocent 17-year-old Baby vacations with her parents at a Catskill's resort. One evening, she is drawn to the staff quarters by stirring music. There, she meets Johnny, the hotel dance instructor, who is as experienced as Baby is naive. Baby soon becomes Johnny's pupil in dance and love.

Drama / Music / Romance / Teen / Coming of age

Speed 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Disney / Buena Vista | 1994 | 116 min | Rated R | May 04, 2021 | Martin Liebman

L.A.P.D. SWAT team specialist is sent to defuse a bomb on a bus. But until he does, he and a passenger must keep the bus at more than 50 mph -- or the bomb will explode.

Action / Thriller

Summer Camp Girls Blu-ray Movie  

Vinegar Syndrome | 1983 | 88 min | Rated X | Apr 27, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

A rich girl is sent off to summer camp by her Mafioso father to shield her from the real world, little does daddy know that at Camp Quim sex wins out over arts and crafts every time.

Erotic

55 Steps Blu-ray Movie  

Eleanor & Colette

Sony Pictures | 2017 | 114 min | Rated PG-13 | Mar 30, 2021 | Martin Liebman

When patients' rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients in hospitals, she is meeting a woman who will make it her mission to transform Colette's workaholic life.

Biography / Drama

King Kong Blu-ray Movie  

Collector's Edition

Shout Factory | 1976 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 134 min | Rated PG | May 11, 2021 | Brian Orndorf

An oil company expedition encounters a colossal giant gorilla and brings it back to New York to exploit him.

Adventure / Fantasy / Horror

The Final Countdown 4K Blu-ray Movie  

Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + CD

Blue Underground | 1980 | 103 min | Rated PG | May 25, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

Due to a freak electrical storm, USS Nimitz the world's largest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is transported back to December 6, 1941.

Adventure / Drama / Sci-Fi / War

Justice Society: World War II Blu-ray Movie  

Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2021 | 84 min | Rated PG-13 | May 11, 2021 | Randy Miller III

The Justice Society of America , a group of heroes aiding the allies in World War 2, acquire an ally from the future who sends them on an adventure that changes history.

Animation / Fantasy / Comic book / Period

Justice Society: World War II 4K Blu-ray Movie  

4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Copy

Warner Bros. | 2021 | 84 min | Rated PG-13 | May 11, 2021 | Randy Miller III

The Justice Society of America , a group of heroes aiding the allies in World War 2, acquire an ally from the future who sends them on an adventure that changes history.

Animation / Fantasy / Comic book / Period

Deliver Us from Evil Blu-ray Movie  

다만 악에서 구하소서 / Daman Akeseo Goohasoseo

Well Go USA | 2020 | 108 min | Not rated | May 25, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

An assassin goes to Thailand in order to solve a kidnapping case linked to him, and finds himself chased by a man whose sibling he killed.

Action / Crime / Foreign

Zombeavers Blu-ray Movie  

Freestyle Digital Media | 2014 | 77 min | Rated R | Feb 25, 2020 | Martin Liebman

Zombeavers is an action-packed horror/comedy in which a group of college kids staying at a riverside cabin are menaced by a swarm of deadly zombie beavers. A weekend of sex and debauchery soon turns gruesome as the beavers close in on the kids. Riding the line between scary, sexy and funny, the kids are soon fighting for their lives in a desperate attempt to fend off the hoard of beavers that attack them in and around their cabin.

Action / Comedy / Horror

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Blu-ray Movie  

Sony Pictures | 2005 | 121 min | Rated R | May 28, 2019 | Martin Liebman

A man is shot and quickly buried in the high desert of west Texas. The body is found and reburied in Van Horn's town cemetery. Pete Perkins, a local ranch foreman kidnaps a Border Patrolman and forces him to disinter the body. With his captive in tow and the body tied to a mule Pete undertakes a dangerous and quixotic journey into Mexico.

Adventure / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Western

Deep Blood Blu-ray Movie  

Sangue negli abissi

Severin Films | 1990 | 94 min | Not rated | Apr 27, 2021 | Jeffrey Kauffman

Several young men have to stop an ancient native American evil in the form of a killer shark which is attacking a small beach community.

Action

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia Blu-ray Movie  

Second Pressing | 4K Restoration

Kino Lorber | 1974 | 112 min | Rated R | May 04, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.

Action / Crime / Drama / Western

Jazz on a Summer's Day Blu-ray Movie  

Kino Lorber | 1959 | 83 min | Not rated | Feb 09, 2021 | Dr. Svet Atanasov

The highlights of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

Documentary / Music