| Airport: The Complete 4 Film Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Americana | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Arcane League of Legends | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Battle of the Bulge 2 Movie Collection | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Best Christmas Pageant Ever | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Beyond the Law | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Black Panther of Shaolin / The Black Six | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Blitz | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Call | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Cat and the Canary | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Catch 22 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Chinese Ghost Story Trilogy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Directed by Tsui Hark, and which has been out of print for years. | ||||||||
| Cyborg 009 vs Devilman | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime OVA series about the main character of Shotaro Ishinomori’s Cyborg 009 teaming up with the protagonist of Go Nagai’s Devilman to fight a common enemy. | ||||||||
| Dan Curtis’ Classic Monsters (Kino-Lorber) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Made-for-TV versions of Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. | ||||||||
| Darkstalkers | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is the US Saturday Morning cartoon series based on the capcom fighting game. | ||||||||
| Day of the Jackal | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Death Wish 3 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Deep Crimson (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Dust Devil | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Edward Scissorhands | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Films of Hisayasu Sato: Volume 1 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Includes Re-Wind, Lustmord, and Love Letter in Sand | ||||||||
| For Whom the Bell Tolls | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Golden Boy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Comedy anime about a chucklehead going from job to job. | ||||||||
| Good Boy | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Halloween III: Season of the Witch | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Higurashi When They Cry | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Japanese horror anime based on a series of video games set in a remote Japanese village where people go on a murderous rampage, and are trapped in a time loop. | ||||||||
| In the Mouth of Madness (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Island | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Hong Kong horror film inspired by American “Isolated rural environments are scary” horror films like The Hills Have Eyes and Deliverance. | ||||||||
| Kamen Rider Amazon (1974) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | As the title says, this is a Kamen Rider series where the title character is in the Amazon rainforest (though the series is still shot in Japan). | ||||||||
| King Arthur and the Knights of Justice | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is the Saturday Morning cartoon from 1992 (which also got a beat-em-up game from, of all people, Koei). | ||||||||
| Let This Grieving Soul Retire | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Fantasy anime series, with the main character being the one member of a legendary group of heroes who didn’t have any real combat skills, and wants to retire – only for his collegues to have (successfully) hyped up his skills above and beyond where they actually were, leading to him being put in charge of an adventurer’s guild (this has been mentioned in the “What We’re Watching” segment of the Anime Explorations podcast several times). | ||||||||
| Mad Miss Manton | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Manhattan Melodrama | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Master of Ballantrae | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Masterpiece: The Gold | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Mega Man | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is the Saturday Morning Mega Man cartoon (the one with the opening song that repeated “The fighting robot — Mega Man!”) | ||||||||
| MM! | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Fanservice heavy romantic comedy anime about a masochist who ends up joining a school club full of weirdos. | ||||||||
| Most Notorious “Talker” Runs the World’s Greatest Clan | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Anime series where a person in a low-combat prowess class (in this case “Talker” – which has social and charm magic), gets kicked out of his adventuring party and decides to start a powerful guild to get revenge. | ||||||||
| Ms .45 (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Naruto Shippuden | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Nightmare Alley (Criterion Collection) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Ouran High School Host Club Live | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Film tie-in to the live-action Ouran High School Host Club TV series. | ||||||||
| Out of the Fog | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Princess Principal | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Re-release of the complete first season of Princess Principal. | ||||||||
| Relay | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Resurrected | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| RWBY | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Samurai Fury | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Live action samurai film also known as Muromachi Outsiders, | ||||||||
| Saw 2 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Saw 3 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Saw 4 | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island – Terror Time | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Shin Chan | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The English dubbed release of Crayon-Shin Chan that aired on Cartoon Network in the Adult Swim block. | ||||||||
| Shin Godzilla | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Smurfs (2025) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| St. Denis Medical | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Stone Protectors | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | This is the Saturday Morning Trolls (as in the toys with fake gemstones in their belly buttons and colorful hair) animated series targeted for boys. | ||||||||
| Third Wife | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Toxic Avenger (2025) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Trick R Treat (Arrow) | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Urotsukidoji Sequels of the Overfiend | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | The sequel films to the infamous hentai-ish OVA (I’m using the “Ish” because it did get a significant arthouse theatrical release in the 80s). | ||||||||
| We’re No Angels | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Comments | Starring Robert De Niro and Sean Penn | ||||||||
| Weeds | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
| Wendigo | |||||||||
| Amazon | |||||||||
Finally, the picks of the week. Alex says, “My UHD pick of the week is
The first Chinese Ghost Story is pretty good, but the sequels have diminishing returns for me.
Is Death With 3 the one where they jumped the shark, backed up and ran over it a few times?
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island was (and is) a hallmark for the franchise. Basically bringing it back from the dead (rimshot) and being a great entry into the series.
Third Eye Blind still plays their version of the theme song at concerts.
That and Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost, which came out the same year, brought back the old gang and…. well, provided some unexpected twists. But Zombie Island is the darker (for Scooby Doo) of the two.
That whole “trilogy” (through Cyber Chase) really got the franchise restarted.
Trick ‘r Treat (2007/9) may be the most perfect movie about Halloween ever made, an R-rated horror comic-style anthology that works as a coherent whole, and made for repeated viewings.
*Made in 2007,but not released until 2009.