Upcoming Pop Cinema Blu-ray Releases
HomeUpcoming Pop Cinema Blu-ray Releases
Posted November 1, 2017 03:26 PM by Webmaster
U.S. label Pop Cinema has partnered with Something Weird Video to release a series of 1970s sexploitation films on Blu-ray under the imprint "Racy Reels From the Something Weird Vault." The first two releases will be available for purchase early next year.
New 2K digital transfers will be created from the original 35mm film assets, with liner notes contributed by an assortment of established exploitation film critics, including Cinema Sewer's Robin Bougie, fringe culture writer Heather Drain and Jeremy Richey of Art Decades.
An additional 16 films are ear-marked for release as part of the Blu-ray double feature series.
Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death/Invasion of the Love Drones
"A pioneering slice of post-apocalypse cinema" (ReprobateMagazine.uk) only begins to describe the soft-core doomsday fever-dream that is Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death (1973), head-lining this fantasy sci-fi double-feature Blu-ray combo from Pop Cinema and Something Weird.
Before Mad Max, humans struggle to survive a barren planet populated by roving bands of biker gangs, armed with only some killer kung-fu moves and a willingness to get down with just about anyone. Starring Sandi Cary, Kim Lu and the ubiquitous Uschi Digard, Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death is a dystopian action film tailor-made for lovers of 70s exploitation cinema.
"Welcome to…The Erogenous Zone" intones a Rod Sterling-esque voice as we dive into 1977's Invasion of the Love Drones, an absurd, ambitious and ultra-stylish sci-fi romp in which Eric Edwards is enlisted by aliens to deflect a nuclear-tipped rocket from their mother ship…by causing a planetary orgasm, of course. Featuring Bree Anthony, Jennifer Jordan, with an appearance by Jamie Gillis.
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 27.
Female Chauvinists/Hot Connections
"We have found a serpent in our garden of Eden" cries Ms. Fulla Bull, the leader of a militant group of feminists in Female Chauvinists (1976), one of two wacky '70s satires of the women's lib movement in this double-feature Blu-ray combo from Pop Cinema and Something Weird.
After infiltrating a feminist training camp, a recruit "hires" her boyfriend as the handyman, where he is discovered by the militant leader and scheduled for castration! Taking pity on him, the ladies decide to keep him as a stud, proving not all feminists are hard-core lesbians. Female Chauvinists features a bevy of grindhouse stars including the bountiful Roxanne Brewer, Uschi Digard and Candy Samples.
After a switch-board operator becomes pregnant by her married boss, the ladies -- and wives -- of the phone company get their revenge in Hot Connections (1972), a saucy comedy featuring Rene Bond, Tally Wright and Mindy Brandt.
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 27.
New 2K digital transfers will be created from the original 35mm film assets, with liner notes contributed by an assortment of established exploitation film critics, including Cinema Sewer's Robin Bougie, fringe culture writer Heather Drain and Jeremy Richey of Art Decades.
An additional 16 films are ear-marked for release as part of the Blu-ray double feature series.
Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death/Invasion of the Love Drones
"A pioneering slice of post-apocalypse cinema" (ReprobateMagazine.uk) only begins to describe the soft-core doomsday fever-dream that is Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death (1973), head-lining this fantasy sci-fi double-feature Blu-ray combo from Pop Cinema and Something Weird.
Before Mad Max, humans struggle to survive a barren planet populated by roving bands of biker gangs, armed with only some killer kung-fu moves and a willingness to get down with just about anyone. Starring Sandi Cary, Kim Lu and the ubiquitous Uschi Digard, Cries of Ecstasy, Blows of Death is a dystopian action film tailor-made for lovers of 70s exploitation cinema.
"Welcome to…The Erogenous Zone" intones a Rod Sterling-esque voice as we dive into 1977's Invasion of the Love Drones, an absurd, ambitious and ultra-stylish sci-fi romp in which Eric Edwards is enlisted by aliens to deflect a nuclear-tipped rocket from their mother ship…by causing a planetary orgasm, of course. Featuring Bree Anthony, Jennifer Jordan, with an appearance by Jamie Gillis.
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 27.
Female Chauvinists/Hot Connections
"We have found a serpent in our garden of Eden" cries Ms. Fulla Bull, the leader of a militant group of feminists in Female Chauvinists (1976), one of two wacky '70s satires of the women's lib movement in this double-feature Blu-ray combo from Pop Cinema and Something Weird.
After infiltrating a feminist training camp, a recruit "hires" her boyfriend as the handyman, where he is discovered by the militant leader and scheduled for castration! Taking pity on him, the ladies decide to keep him as a stud, proving not all feminists are hard-core lesbians. Female Chauvinists features a bevy of grindhouse stars including the bountiful Roxanne Brewer, Uschi Digard and Candy Samples.
After a switch-board operator becomes pregnant by her married boss, the ladies -- and wives -- of the phone company get their revenge in Hot Connections (1972), a saucy comedy featuring Rene Bond, Tally Wright and Mindy Brandt.
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 27.