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Home- October 23, 2020
Perfect Blue Blu-ray Movie
パーフェクトブルー / Pāfekuto Burū / Blu-ray + DVD
Shout Factory | 1997 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 82 min | Unrated | Mar 26, 2019 | 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
Point Doom Blu-ray Movie
Dark Force Entertainment | 2000 | 99 min | Not rated | Mar 17, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
A Hollywood talent agent's girlfriend thrusts him into a world of strip clubs, drugs and deadly motorcycle gangs.
Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller
The Red Ball Express Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1952 | 83 min | Not rated | Aug 18, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Story of the military truck drivers who kept the Allied armies supplied in Europe during WW2.
Action / Drama / War
Raid on Rommel Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1971 | 98 min | Rated PG | Aug 18, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
British Intelligence officer uses former British POWs to fulfill a secret sabotage mission inside German-captured Tobruk.
Action / Drama / War
Spawn of the North Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1938 | 110 min | Not rated | Sep 15, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Friends since childhood, two men are on opposite sides in a salmon fishing conflict.
Action / Adventure / Romance
Disputed Passage Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1939 | 87 min | Not rated | Sep 15, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff and John Howard star in Disputed Passage, a gripping story about the powerful healing ability of the human spirit. John Wesley Beaven (Howard), an understudy of Dr. 'Tubby' Forster (Tamiroff), esteemed professor of medicine and surgery, struggles to fully surrender to his teacher’s philosophy of keeping the sterility of science separate from the warmth of the human spirit. His views are challenged after he falls in love with Lan Ying (Lamour), a Chinese woman of American descent raised in Shanghai. Upon completion of paying a personal debt to her Chinese father, she promptly returns to John to accept his marriage proposal but is interjected by Foster claiming that she would ruin his life. When John becomes aware that Foster has interfered, he sets out to find his love in China.
Drama / Romance / War
- October 22, 2020
One Piece: Stampede Blu-ray Movie
Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
FUNimation Entertainment | 2019 | 102 min | Rated TV-14 | Mar 17, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
The world’s boldest buccaneers set sail for the great Pirate Festival, where the Straw Hats join a mad-dash race to find Gol D. Roger’s treasure. There’s just one little problem. An old member of Roger’s crew has a sinister score to settle. All bets are off when the most iconic pirates of One Piece history band together for a swashbuckling showdown, the likes of which have never been seen!
Action / Adventure / Anime / Foreign
The Last Valley Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1971 | 128 min | Rated PG | Jun 23, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
During the Thirty Years' War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war.
Adventure / Drama / War / Period
Victor and Victoria Blu-ray Movie
Viktor und Viktoria
Kino Lorber | 1933 | 100 min | Not rated | Jun 09, 2020 | Neil Lumbard
Aspiring singer Susanne takes over for ham actor Viktor at a small cabaret in Berlin where he works a woman impersonator and per chance she's discovered by an agent, who thinks that she really is a man. She becomes famous, but her situation becomes troublesome when she falls in love with Robert.
Comedy / Musical / Romance / Foreign
Curse of the Undead Blu-ray Movie
Kino Lorber | 1959 | 79 min | Not rated | Oct 06, 2020 | Dr. Svet Atanasov
B-grade western with a twist: mysterious gunslinger-for-hire Drake Robey is really a vampire, and it's up to Preacher Dan to save the town and girlfriend Dolores Carter.
Horror / Western
Friday the 13th Collection Blu-ray Movie
Deluxe Edition / Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 1980-2009 | 12 Movies, 15 Cuts | 1122 min | Rated R | Oct 13, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Jason Voorhees drowned as a young child at Camp Crystal Lake due to the inattentiveness of camp counselors. Many years later, the camp becomes the scene of murder and mayhem, and Jason returns from the grave, spreading terror through Crystal Lake – and beyond.
Action / Horror / Mystery / Sci-Fi / Thriller / Supernatural
Friday the 13th Blu-ray Movie
Friday The 13th Collection Deluxe Edition Version / Theatrical & Uncut
Shout Factory | 1980 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 95 min | Rated R | Oct 13, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Entrepreneur is trying to reopen a summer camp called Crystal Lake, which has a grim past, and is stalked by a mysterious killer.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Friday the 13th: Part 2 Blu-ray Movie
Friday The 13th Collection Deluxe Edition Version
Shout Factory | 1981 | 87 min | Rated R | Oct 13, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Serial murderer Jason, believed to have drowned in Crystal Lake, returns to camp to take his revenge on the young camp counselors.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Friday the 13th: Part III 3-D Blu-ray Movie
Friday The 13th Collection Deluxe Edition Version / Blu-ray 3D + Blu-ray
Shout Factory | 1982 | 95 min | Rated R | Oct 13, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Jason, a hockey mask-wearing serial murderer, wages a diabolical killing spree at a summer camp.
Horror
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Blu-ray Movie
Friday The 13th Collection Deluxe Edition Version
Shout Factory | 1984 | 91 min | Rated R | Oct 13, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Hockey-masked Jason Voorhees is back, with a vengeance. Picking up directly where 'Part 3' left off, Jason leaves the hospital morgue and sets his sights on yet another group of young people near Crystal Lake.
Horror
Friday the 13th: Part V - A New Beginning Blu-ray Movie
Friday The 13th Collection Deluxe Edition Version
Shout Factory | 1985 | 92 min | Rated R | Oct 13, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Young Tommy Jarvis may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he's still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway house for troubled teens where he now lives, it seems like his nightmarish nemesis, Jason Voorhees, is back for more sadistic slaughters.
Horror
Friday the 13th: Part VI - Jason Lives Blu-ray Movie
Friday The 13th Collection Deluxe Edition Version
Shout Factory | 1986 | 87 min | Rated R | Oct 13, 2020 | Martin Liebman
As a child, Tommy Jarvis killed mass murderer Jason Voorhees. Years later, he is tormented by the fear that Jason may not be dead. Determined to finish off the infamous killer once and for all, Tommy and a friend dig up Jason's corpse in order to cremate him. Unfortunately, things go seriously awry, and Jason is instead resurrected, sparking a new chain of ruthlessly brutal murders.
Horror
Friday the 13th: Part VII - The New Blood Blu-ray Movie
Friday The 13th Collection Deluxe Edition Version
Shout Factory | 1988 | 88 min | Rated R | Oct 13, 2020 | Martin Liebman
One of this season's happy campers at Crystal Lake has brought along a deadly secret. Tina Shepherd can see the future and levitate objects. Her doctor knows just how dangerous telekinesis can be, but now it's too late. Tina has accidentally unchained Jason from his watery grave, and the bloodbath is underway.
Horror / Thriller
Friday the 13th: Part VIII - Jason Takes Manhattan Blu-ray Movie
Friday The 13th Collection Deluxe Edition Version
Shout Factory | 1989 | 100 min | Rated R | Oct 13, 2020 | Martin Liebman
High school senior Rennie Wickham is in for the ride of her life—and possibly her death—when she and her classmates take a graduation cruise bound for New York City. Little do they know that crazed serial killer Jason is a stowaway who quickly transforms the teen-filled "love boat" celebration into the ultimate voyage of the damned.
Horror
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday Blu-ray Movie
Friday The 13th Collection Deluxe Edition Version / Theatrical & Unrated Cut
Shout Factory | 1993 | 1 Movie, 2 Cuts | 91 min | Unrated | Oct 13, 2020 | Martin Liebman
Jason's evil spirit finds its way into a series of host bodies, thus continuing the carnage at Crystal Lake, where Jason confronts a long-lost sister.
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Supernatural