Battle Royale & Battle Royale II: The Complete 4-Disc Collection Blu-ray & DVD (Anchor Bay)
We’re totally on time and kicking ass with this week’s new releases list. Get ready for “Battle Royale,” Bruce’sploitation, and more serial killers than you can shake a stick at. Are you ready? Here are your Blu-ray and DVD new releases for the week of 3/20/12:
ASIAN CINEMA
Battle Royale: The Complete Collection (Blu-ray/DVD) – the director’s cuts and theatrical cuts of both “Battle Royale” and “Battle Royale II,” in one Blu-ray set from Anchor Bay. Hot damn!
Battle Royale (Blu-ray/DVD) – don’t want to bother with the inferior “Battle Royale II”? Stick with the original 2000 modern classic on Blu-ray or DVD
Private Eye (DVD) – Pathfinder Pictures presents this 2009 Korean detective thriller set in the 1900’s that’s marketed as Korea’s answer to “Sherlock Holmes”
Secret Pleasures: Four Asian Films about Love, Longing and Fishhooks (DVD) – in this four DVD set, you receive: “Electric Shadows,” “The Isle,” “Ghosted,” and “The Personals,” courtesy of First Run Features
Lost on the Island (AKA Mapado 2) (DVD) – an off-the-wall 2007 Korean comedy that’s been labelled “cruel and twisted”
Red Persimmons (DVD) – a 2004 poetic Japanese documentary about the packaging of persimmons in a tiny Japanese village, it wasn’t completed until after the director’s passing
The Dragon Lives Again (DVD) – hey, what do you know, a Bruce’sploitation flick! This 1977 kung fu movie, dubbed into English for DVD, features a Bruce Lee clone fighting off the undead and other hellish warriors
TELEVISION
Scent of a Woman (DVD) – the popular Korean TV romance is now on DVD, featuring the stars of “My Lovely Sam-soon” and “My Girl”
FOREIGN CINEMA
Letter Never Sent (Blu-ray/DVD) – the Criterion Collection presents this sweeping 1959 Russian epic from director Mikhail Kalatozov
Gainsbourg (Blu-ray/DVD) – a 2012 biopicture about the legendary French singer, Serge Gainsbourg (played by Eric Elmosnino in the film)
Sidewalls (DVD) – a 2011 Argentinian romantic comedy that mixes mediums (film, photography, art) and pays homage to the city of Buenos Aires
Little Girl (AKA “La Pivellina”) (DVD) – a new brand of Italian neorealism (neo-neorealism?) is explored in this 2009 film about a little girl abandoned and adopted by a circus troupe
Amor En Transito (DVD) – no product description for this 2010 Spanish-language film but it looks like a thriller and the cover promises “Be careful what you wish for”
What You Don’t See (DVD) – another DVD from Vanguard Films with no product description, but the cover promises that this 2009 German-language film is an “atmospheric chiller”
MAINSTREAM
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Blu-ray/DVD) – director David Fincher re-imagines the bestselling Swedish novel with his own brand of unsettling dread. Starring Daniel Craig and Rooney Mara
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Blu-ray/DVD) – Gary Oldman stars in this critically acclaimed 2011 espionage drama from the director of “Let the Right One In”
Carnage (Blu-ray/DVD) – Roman Polanski’s 2011 film about parents who are just as misbehaved as their children features an all-star cast including Kate Winslet and Christopher Waltz
A Lonely Place to Die (Blu-ray/DVD) – IFC Midnight presents this 2011 thriller about a group of mountain climbers who decide to rescue a little girl they find starving and alone, only to become the target of her kidnappers
CULT
Roadracers (Blu-ray/DVD) – for the first time on home formats! Back in 1994, “Desperado” filmmaker Robert Rodriguez made this Showtime movie about rebellious young racers with David Arquette and Salma Hayek
Puppet on a Chain (DVD) – an obscure 1971 thriller that posits itself as a James Bond-style adventure
Frauleins In Uniform (DVD) – a 1973 Nazi’sploitation style flick, on DVD from Cheezy
This is Not a Movie (Blu-ray/DVD) – Edward Furlong stars in this 2011 self-aware stab at pop culture and the end of the world. Featuring music by Slash of Guns ‘N Roses fame
HORROR
Strip Nude For Your Killer (Blu-ray) – your friends at Blue Underground present this 1975 Italian horror film starring genre stalwart Edwige Fenech, now in hi-def
The Hills Have Eyes 2 (Remastered Edition) (Blu-ray) – Redemption Films offers Wes Craven’s 1985 slasher sequel on remastered Blu-ray
Splintered (Blu-ray + DVD combo/DVD) – this 2010 UK creature feature has earned kudos over there for its tale of a mythical Wales beast come to life
Classic Splatter Pack (The Drive-in Massacre/The Driller Killer) (DVD) – CFS Releasing offers two nasty little 70’s slashers together on DVD
Satan’s Slave (Uncut Edition) (DVD) – Katrina’s Nightmare Theater presents the uncut version of this 1976 horror flick
Funeral Home (DVD) – a 1981 horror film in the classic Eighties slasher mold
Jarring (DVD) – a 2009 indie serial killer movie from Vanguard Cinema
Claustrofobia (DVD) – Seminal Films provides this 2011 paranoid thriller set in a young woman’s apartment
Won Ton Baby (DVD) – when a prostitute gives up her baby and sets her sights on a cleaner lifestyle, she has no idea her offspring will become a parasitic killer in this 2010 creature flick
The Ritual (DVD) – in this 2010 ‘found footage’-style horror film, a fugitive serial killer grooms a young hustler to be his successor
The Museum of Wonders (DVD) – a brutal revenge plot unfolds when a circus dwarf realizes his wife has only married him to steal his money in this 2010 horror flick
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