We have some high-profile horror releases from Arrow Video, and a landmark release from the Criterion Collection this week.
47 Meters Down: Uncaged | |||||||||
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American Werewolf in London (Arrow Video) | |||||||||
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Angry Birds Movie 2 | |||||||||
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Barn | |||||||||
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Batman Beyond | |||||||||
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Blob (1988) | |||||||||
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Comments | This is the David Cronenberg version of the film. | ||||||||
Classic Comedy | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, and The Three Stooges | ||||||||
Complete Sartana (Arrow Video) | |||||||||
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Comments | Contains If You Meet Sartana… Pray for Your Death, I Am Sartana, Your Angel of Death, Have a Good Funeral My Friend… Sartana Will Pay, Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming, and Sartana’s Here… Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin | ||||||||
Days of Wine and Roses | |||||||||
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Devil Rides Out | |||||||||
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Discovery of Witches | |||||||||
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Farewell | |||||||||
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Comments | Available on physical media November 12 | ||||||||
Female Prisoner Scorpion (Arrow Video) | |||||||||
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Comments | Japanese Exploitation film series, and something of a predecessor to the western genre of Women in Prison exploitation films. Includes Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion, Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41, Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable, and Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701’s Grudge Song | ||||||||
French Village | |||||||||
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Goblin Slayer | |||||||||
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Comments | Fantasy anime series about a group of adventurers who hunt down Goblins – lead by the titular Goblin Slayer. The Limited edition release comes in an chipboard box with an artbook and a series of art cards. | ||||||||
Godzilla: The Showa-era Films (1954-1975) (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: The Criterion Collection, if you aren’t already aware, numbers the spine of every release. They wanted to do something really special when they got to spine number 1000. This is it. | ||||||||
Good Boys | |||||||||
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Heroes of the West: 10 Classic Westerns | |||||||||
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How Not to Summon a Demon Lord | |||||||||
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Rightstuf | |||||||||
Comments | Isekai (Another World) anime series about a MMO player who gets whisked to a fantasy world as his character. The limited edition release comes with an artbook and some art cards. | ||||||||
Human Monster | |||||||||
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Hyperdimension Neptunia | |||||||||
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It’s a Wonderful Life | |||||||||
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Kemono Friends | |||||||||
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Comments | The Blu-Ray release came out in September. | ||||||||
Kundun | |||||||||
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Comments | The film that got Martin Scorsese banned from China. | ||||||||
Legend of the Demon Cat | |||||||||
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Life with Mikey | |||||||||
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Little Woman/Marie Antoinette Double Feature | |||||||||
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Luce | |||||||||
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Lucy Show | |||||||||
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Comments | Includes 8 episodes of the series | ||||||||
Lupin the Third: Goemon’s Blood Spray | |||||||||
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Man of a Thousand Faces (Arrow Video) | |||||||||
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Matewan (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
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Mr. Nice Guy | |||||||||
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Comments | Alex Described as the “Extended Original Cut”. Not sure what that means. | ||||||||
Private School | |||||||||
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Psycho-Pass | |||||||||
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Queens of Mystery | |||||||||
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Red Heat | |||||||||
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Ringu (Arrow Video) | |||||||||
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Ringu Collection (Arrow Video) | |||||||||
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Comments | Contains the Japanese horror films Ringu, Ringu 0, Ringu 2, and Raisen, | ||||||||
Santa Girl | |||||||||
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Senran Kagura: Shinovi Master | |||||||||
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Swan Princess | |||||||||
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The Thing (2011) | |||||||||
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Comments | Prequel to the John Carpeenter classic. | ||||||||
They Made Me a Fugitive (1947) | |||||||||
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Warrior | |||||||||
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Comments | Based on a series concept by Bruce Lee. | ||||||||
Watch Me When I Kill | |||||||||
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Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory | |||||||||
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Comments | Blaine: I have a DVD copy of this in a 50 movie box set I spent $10 on. I’m surprised it warrants a Blu-Ray release. Should I actually bother to watch it? Has anyone actually seen it?. Alex: Apparently this release came from the original masters, which have been cleaned up, as opposed to whatever the picture quality is in that 50 movie box set (I have a couple similar boxed sets full of kung fu movies, and they tend to have very variable picture quality. | ||||||||
Witching Season | |||||||||
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Wizard of Oz | |||||||||
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Yumeiro Patissiere | |||||||||
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Comments | Anime series about a middle school girl who decides to start studying to become a pâtissière. |
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “The Godzilla Collection is absolutely my pick of the week.” Blaine says, “My pick is also the Godzilla set. When the people at “The Criterion Collection” say they want to do something extra special, it’s worth picking up no matter what. When the subject is a science fiction icon with such a, shall we say, eclectic variety of quality in its films, you know their world famous bonus features are going to be worth checking out.”
The 2011 The Thing is a prequel?
This is where I go “How bad could it possibly be?” but luckily I’m out of town and will hopefully forget about this by the time I get back home.
If there are any old Fox movies out there you kinda, sorta have your eye on, you may want to grab them now. Disney might be vaulting them now that they’re “in the fold.”
https://www.vulture.com/2019/10/disney-is-quietly-placing-classic-fox-movies-into-its-vault.html