Showing posts with label New Releases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Releases. Show all posts

5/19/09

Notable DVD Releases This Week: May 18, 2009

In addition to the stuff listed below, a bunch of Steven Seagal reissues are out this week, so pick em up!

Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus (2009)
This movie has def been getting a lot of press this week, how could it not? Debbie Gibson! and a Shark! that fights an Octopus! Lorenzo Lamas!!







Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards! (1963)
Japanese director Seijun Suzuki solidified his growing cult following with this offbeat adaptation of Haruhiko Ooyabu's crime novel.







Fanboys (2007)
A fanatical group of Star Wars devotees travel across the country on a mission to steal a print of Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace from Skywalker Ranch.






Nightmare Castle (1965)
Barbara Steele in the classic gothic thriller.









Eden Log (2008)
In the pit of a darkened cave, a man awakens next to a corpse and finds himself pursued by a mysterious creature.







Outlander (2008)
Beowulf meets Predator with Jesus.










My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)
A psychopathic miner terrorizes the town of Harmony in this retelling of one of the most underrated slasher films of the early '80s.






Dr. Dolittle: Million Dollar Mutts (2009)
Judge Reinhold is at it again!









Muscle Madness
Comes with:
GOLIATH AND THE SINS OF BABYLON
GIANT OF MARATHON
HERCULES AGAINST THE MOON MEN
COLOSSUS AND THE AMAZON QUEEN
WAR OF THE TROJANS

5/11/09

Notable DVD Releases This Week: May 12, 2009

Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2008)
The Underworld series gets the prequel treatment with this third outing that fleshes out the story of the ancient war between the vampiric Death Dealers and their wolfman counterparts, the Lycans.






s.Darko: A Donnie Darko Tale (2009)
Samantha Darko (Daveigh Chase), during which she experiences many of the same visions that plagued her now-dead brother.







The Man with the Screaming Brain/Alien Apocalypse (2009)
Two times the Bruce!








High Hopes (2005)










Grudge 3 (2009)
The ghosts of the Grudge come back in this third film. Yay.









Galaxy Quest (1999)
Awesome underrated sci-fi spoof about the cast of a Star Trek-like show get mistaken for heroes and are whisked into space to save some helpless aliens. Like The Three Amigos! in space.






Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy
Weren't there six with the original cast? Or is this just the three good ones?








Virtuosity (2005)
Value priced DVD of early Russell Crowe is a psycho computer program come to life, and Denzel Washington has to stop him. Great mid-'90s sci-fi cheese.







Train Master (2008)
Train Master follows a young group of children aboard a runaway train, and their parents' efforts to stop the locomotive before it runs straight into a nuclear cooling tower implosion.






The Dana Carvey Show (1996)

5/4/09

Notable DVD Releases This Week: May 5, 2009

Giant Spider Invasion: Director's Cut (1975)
Bill Rebane's backyard wonder is a hilariously hokey throwback to the giant-monster flicks of the 50s, while taking its only pseudo-scientific conceit from the mid-70s trend of popular "black hole" theories, combining these two elements to create pure bad-movie heaven





The 8th Plague (2009)
A desperate woman in search of her missing sister stumbles upon a terrifying secret in director Franklin Guerrero, Jr.'s atmospheric tale of impending doom.







Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict - Season 1 (2009)









Baja Beach Bums (2006)
A south of the border jaunt turns into a Mexican fiasco when a group of California twenty-somethings arrive in Baja for their annual New Year's Eve surfing trip and become pawns in an explosive showdown between the local mayor and the corrupt police force.





Mum & Dad (2009)
Stranded at work and with no hope of getting home, airport cleaning woman Lena accepts an invitation to spend the night with her perky colleague Birdie, only to find that her unusually close-knit family has some sinister secrets.





The Beast Collection, 4 Discs DVD










Gigantor: The Collection, Vol. 1 (1964)

4/29/09

Notable DVD Releases This Week: April 28, 2009

So many freakin’ releases this week! The list has been trimmed of a lot of crappy horror, but if nothing here tickles your fancy, which I doubt with The Terminators and Psychos in Love being released, then you’re a maniac.

The Terminators (2009)
Asylum pictures take on robots fighting humans in the future. Features former hunky 7th heaven star Jeremy London.







Psychos in Love (1987)
Finally!! A strip-joint owner and a manicurist find that they have many things in common, the foremost being that they are psychotic serial killers. DVD Comes with tons of extras.






Never Surrender (2009)
The world’s best mixed martial arts fighters make a movie.








JCVD (2008)
Van Damme gets mistaken for a bank burglar in this somewhat personal and funny film.








Martyrs (2008)
A relentlessly brutal tale of a girl who suffered unimaginable abuse as a young child, and the unspeakable horrors that unfold when she arrives at an isolated cabin in the woods fifteen years later.






The She-Beast (1965)
An English bride is possessed on her wedding night in this Italian-Yugoslavian horror.








FrankenHood (2008)
A pair of bumbling morgue workers with little prospect of winning the local streetball tourney finds their odds suddenly looking up after enlisting the aid of a towering corpse that was resurrected by the local mad scientist. With Charlie Murphy, Bitch!





Scarce (2008)
Classic tale of outsiders being stalked by locals, and then being eaten.








End of the Line (2006)
A small group gets trapped on a subway car with crazed religious zealots who must sacrifice non-belovers as they approach the apocalypse. Favorite press quote: "Does for subways, what Jaws did for oceans"





One Eyed Monster (2008)
In a comic homage to Alien and The Thing , the cast and crew of an adult film, stranded in a blizzard, must band together against a mysterious and deadly alien, which has possessed the actor with the biggest part Ron Jeremy (naturally). Now, with the monster on a killing spree, the race is on to trap and destroy it before there are more victims of its peculiar skills.



War Gods Collection, 4-disc set
Epic battles, beefcake and beautiful babes await in this definitive sword and sandal film collection! See stars Gordon Scott, Richard Harrison and Howard Duff fight for justice in 1960s-style Ancient Rome; and delight in the fantastical sci-fi special effects of these amazing films, helmed by the likes of James Bond director Terence Young and Francis Ford Coppola (back when he was one of Roger Corman's humble assistants!).


Revenge of the Crusader (1964)










Deadly Sweet (1967)
A French actor finds his business contact lying murdered on the floor. Rather than call the police, he decides to protect the young woman at the scene and nail down the true killers, which puts him on a collision course with the London underworld. A cult classic!





Grindhouse Double Feature: Beast of the Yellow Night/Keep My Grave Open
Satan saves Ashley from death on condition he become his disciple (and, as it turns out, a hairy murderous beast). / A crazy woman who lives in an old mansion thinks she's with her brother/lover, who lures victims to her.





Louisiana Hussy (1960)
Cajun newlyweds must deal with the jealousy of his brother, who also loved her, and the arrival of a mysterious seductress in their bayou backwater.







Mistress of Atlantis (1932)
In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the mummified remains of former lovers.







Chandu on the Magic Island/Return of Chandu
Classic Bela Lugosi series from the 1930’s.










Juvenile Delinquents at Large Collection










Gothic Horror, 10-disc set










Tales from the Tomb, 10-disc set