Description: A new scene of troubled, lo-fi young rappers has emerged from Trump's America, utilizing the SoundCloud streaming platform to quickly become the most culturally disruptive force in hip hop, shocking the world with their rambunctious antics, prescription drug use, facial tattoos, and rebellious punk energy. We examine the SoundCloud rap scene's biggest stars from within the culture as well placing them in the broader musical context in an attempt to understand how we arrived here and where we are headed.
Description: Winner of 25 genre festival awards worldwide, Amigo is a darkly comic psychological thriller depicting a bitter power struggle between two best friends. Following a car accident that kills his wife and leaves his best friend David (David Pareja) with nothing but a scratch, Javi (Javier Botet, REC, Crimson Peak) is left bedridden. His body bears deep gashes, his lungs are filled with fluid that make talking painful and near impossible, his legs are inoperable. From scene one, we see the dynamic at play between the two survivors. David carries Javi into the house. They are fresh from the hospital, and David assures Javi that he will be there to care for him. But... something is not right. Javi does not want David's help. David starts noticing things out of place. He starts suspecting Javi of gaslighting him, despite the fact that Javi can barely move of his own volition. In a series of torturous scenes, the power dynamic settles into a disquieting groove. Reaching an aching fever pitch... Transfixing and deliberately paced Amigo leaves one with an exquisite sense of dread.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Making of (23 min)
Deleted Scenes (23 min)
Trailer (2 min)
Interview with Javier Botet (15 min)
Interview with David Pareja (9 min)
Interview with Javier Botet and David Pareja (5 min)
Interview with Óscar Martín at Molins Horror Film Festival (4 min)
Description: When a pair of divers go missing near The Catfish, the notorious site of a mysterious 1920s shipwreck, a tenacious news reporter Megan Flowers (Pamela Sutch) becomes determined to unravel the mysterious connection between the divers' disappearance and the ominous nuclear power plant located on the shores of the small coastal community. When a local, close knit group of salvage divers are enlisted to search the area, the tension mounts as the shores become awash in radioactive corpses and bloodsucking, mutant vampire humanoids!
Started in 1999 but not released on video until 2005, Saturn's Core is proud to present the definitive release of director Dave Castiglione's elusive, shot on video, aquatic eco-horror epic Deep Undead. An homage to the underwater creature features of the 1980's that features a cavalcade of '90s SOV luminaries including Pamela Sutch (Psycho Sisters), Dawn Murphy (Backwoods Marcy), Mick McCleery (Addicted to Murder), Debbie D. (Burglar From Hell), Laura Giglio (Sorority Slaughter), & Osman Karriem (Love Is a Stranger Again), Deep Undead takes a deep dive into terror with its atmospheric scares, pulsing synth score, telepathic mutant sexcapades, and hypnotic underwater videography.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW TRANSFER of the 2019 director's cut version from the original SVHS master (104 min.)
NEW TRANSFER of the original 2005 VHS cut from the original SVHS master
Audio commentary with director Dave Castiglione moderated by Ross Snyder of Saturn's Core
"Diving Deeper Into Deep Undead" -a new feature length retrospective documentary featuring director Dave Castiglione, composer Matt Cannon, author Richard Mogg, and stars Debbie D., Laura Giglio, Mick McCleery, & Phil Herman
Q&A from the 2019 cast & crew reunion screening at the Blue Moon Theatre
"Beyond the Deep Undead" -archival making-of featurette
Two alternate endings
"Open House" (2020) -a short film directed by Matt Cannon starring Deep Undead filmmaker Dave Castiglione
Description: An ordinary lunch hour explodes in an orgy of spurting blood and flying organs when stoner Jake Stephens and cheerleader Amanda Blake suddenly gut-munch half their class in the school cafeteria. Afflicted with a zombie virus, they hit road in search of a cure while outrunning Cass, a telepath charged with hunting and killing the infected. Can Jake and Amanda find love while eating their way through the national sex offender registry? The director of IDLE HANDS delivers an outrageous, gore-soaked zom-rom-com.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
NEW Interview with Director Rodman Flender and Actors Jake Cannavale and Angelique Rivera
Description: For the Plasma begins in a remote house on the coast of Maine, where a young woman named Helen has found work as a forest-fire lookout responsible for monitoring the nearby woodland. While analyzing CCTV footage of the surrounding forest, she discovers that by reconfiguring her perception she can predict shifts in global financial markets. But when her inquisitive friend Charlie arrives at the house, Helen finds herself challenged by her new colleague, and the two girls' relationship begins to unravel. From this cryptic premise grows a lo-fi mind-bender of intimate scale and startling relevance, flirting with genre conventions even as it subverts them. To the strains of an electronic score by Keiichi Suzuki (Zatoichi, Outrage), For the Plasma juxtaposes pastoral imagery with surveillance technology, its every shade and shadow captured in gorgeous 16mm.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Audio Commentary by Bingham Bryant and Kyle Molzan
Foreign Powers, A short film by Bingham Bryant
Trailer
24-page booklet includes an essay by Mario Bellatin
Interview with Bingham Bryant and Kyle Molzenan by John Magary
Description: Over 36 hours in three different wars, a small group of soldiers grapples with mortality, futility and an increasingly volatile combat situation.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Introduction by director Jack Fessenden
Behind the Scenes featurette
Animation Diary by Beck Underwood
Music Video No Jockin' (Darquell) shot by Larry Fessenden
Short film All For One from Jack Fessenden
Q&A from the screening at the MoMA
Audio commentary by director Jack Fessenden
Theatrical Trailer)
New alternate art by Sam Coyle
Essay by Anton Bitel
English SDH subtitles
REGION-FREE
FROM PARTNER LABEL AMERICAN GENRE FILM ARCHIVE (AGFA):
Description: GLOW: THE STORY OF THE GORGEOUS LADIES OF WRESTLING is the true story of what happened behind the scenes of one of the most outrageous television shows in history. From 1986-92, the airwaves were ruled by GLOW—a neon and glitter-soaked reimagining of the World Wrestling Federation with an all-female cast . . . only with more skits, chainsaws, and personalized rap songs. This documentary, which inspired the hit Netflix series GLOW, chronicles the rise and fall of the iconic show through the stories of those who lived it. Produced DIY-style by filmmakers Brett Whitcomb and Bradford Thomason (THE ROCK-AFIRE EXPLOSION), GLOW: THE STORY OF THE GORGEOUS LADIES OF WRESTLING pays tribute to the incredible women who made it all possible. AGFA is thrilled to bring GLOW to Blu-ray for the first time, complete with enough extras to fuel three-thousand suplexes.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Preservation from the original digital master
Archival commentary track with Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins and GLOW wrestlers Little Egypt, Matilda the Hun, and Hollywood
United Film Festival Q&A
Outtakes
Original Trailer
70 minutes of vintage GLOW matches, skits, and music videos
English SDH subtitles
REGION-FREE
FROM PARTNER LABEL CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURES:
Description: It's 1997, and the World Wrestling Federation is facing fierce competition from Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling. When the legendary Bret "The Hitman" Hart is offered a lucrative opportunity to jump ship to the WCW, WWF mastermind Vince McMahon appeals to his sense of loyalty and lures him back with a 20-year contract. But when McMahon abruptly reneges on the deal, Hart reconnects with the competition, paving the way for one of the most notorious events in the history of professional wrestling: the Montreal Screwjob.
Widely hailed as the greatest wrestling documentary of all time, Hitman Hart: Wrestling with Shadows is an engrossing look at the life and career of Bret Hart and the Hart dynasty. Granted unprecedented access to the secret world of wrestling, director Paul Jay presents a real-world narrative far more dramatic than any story created for the ring. Expanding on the film's eye-opening perspective, this disc also includes the potent companion doc, The Life and Death of Owen Hart – co-directed by Jay and Sally Blake – which explores the tragic death of Bret's brother Owen.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
TRANSFERRED AND RESTORED FROM THE BETACAM MASTER
Audio commentary featuring Bret Hart and Wrestling Observer Newsletter editor Dave Meltzer
Anatomy of a Screwjob (2022, 23 min.) – New interview with Bret Hart
Directing with Shadows (2022, 23 min.) – New interview with director Paul Jay
Description: A wild and surreal outer space adventure. A mid-80s mash-up of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, ALIEN, and Edgar Rice Burrough's TARZAN. In the year 6470, a husband and wife team of explorers receive a mysterious distress signal from an astronaut who disappeared decades earlier. They leave their son on board ship to search for the missing astronaut - but fate intervenes, their own ship crashes - leaving their son alone - or is he?
Special Features and Technical Specs:
EXCLUSIVE NEW RESTORATION by Deaf Crocodile from the original 35mm negative
New commentary track by film journalist Samm Deighan
New interview with co-director Călin Cazan
New booklet essay by Stephen R. Bissette
Blu-ray mastering and authoring by David Mackenzie/Fidelity in Motion
Description: Thrust! is a super-saturated exploitation epic that follows two lovers, Aloe and Vera, through a dystopian society ruled by girl gangs. Aloe and Vera are on a quest to kill the last scumbag alive, a disgusting degenerate named Dirtbag Mike. Along the way they have to survive a lurid spectrum of horny and unhinged freaks and fiends. They just need love, a gun, some bullets, working plumbing, and maybe a little bit of the mysterious drug everyone calls "loud."
This unique dystopian vision is based on the short story "Shitfucked: A Vile Love Story" by writer Hannah Neurotica, and is directed by Victor Bonacore. Thrust! stars Erin Brown (AKA Misty Mundae), Allison Egan (Her Name Was Torment), and a huge ensemble cast of independent actresses, professional wrestlers, underground filmmakers, musicians and punks.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Feature length commentary with stars Erin Brown and Allison Egan
"End of Men" Over 3 hours of behind the scenes footage!
"Origins" featuring Hannah Forman and Ami Goodheart
"Scary Mary's Sinema" collecting all of Scary Mary's home movies
"The Music of Thrust"
"Thrust Weekend"
"Yas Scream Queens" featuring Linnea Quigley and Sadie Tate
Short film "Triangle"
Commentary for "Triangle" with director Victor Bonacore and composer Caleab Wyant
Description: Solve the mystery of how "Clue", a film based on a board game, was murdered at the box office but, in a shocking twist, found a fanbase with a passionate appreciation for the movie's hilarious dialogue and incredible cast.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
The evidence found in clue's soundtrack featurette
Additional interview footage not included in the film
Podcast interview with director Jeff Smith about the film
Description: Set against the backdrop of the last days of the French-Algerian war and amidst the lush landscapes of Southern France, Wild Reeds is a coming-of-age saga looking at the sexual awakening of four teenagers. The quartet discover sensual delights while grappling with inner-conflict and political differences. Sensitive François (Gaël Morel) and feminist-communist Maïté (Élodie Bouchez) are in a somewhat stunted relationship, bonding over a mutual love for movies and rock'n'roll. However when François meets Serge (Stéphane Rideau), a handsome muscular youth from the local farming community, he comes to acknowledge his latent homosexuality, while Maïté is seduced by Henri (Frédéric Gorny), a teenage exile whose political stance is in complete opposition to hers. A powerful take on adolescent sexuality and social turmoil, André Téchiné's Wild Reeds is a poignant, moving, and life affirming expression of teenage angst and triumph.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
"Discord, Bloom and Light: The Poetic Pulse of André Téchiné's Wild Reeds" - A Video Essay by Daniel Kremer
New Interview with Actor Stéphane Rideau
Double-sided Poster with an Essay by Caden Mark Gardner