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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: 40th Anniversary Edition | Blu-ray & DVD (MPI Media Group)

RELEASE DATE: September 16, 2014 MPI Media Group presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Tobe Hooper’s 1974 cult horror film Texas Chain Saw Massacre. In this new 40th Anniversary Edition, the classic film has undergone a new 4K restoration by NOLO Digital Film. In other words, get ready to see it as if it were filmed yesterday – check out the amazing detail in the new trailer! The Texas Chain … Continue reading

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Green Ice | DVD (Scorpion Releasing)

RELEASE DATE: August 5, 2014 Scorpion Releasing presents the DVD for 1981’s Green Ice, directed by Ernest Day (1978’s The Professionals TV series). An electronics engineer (Ryan O’Neal) and his gal pal (Anne Archer) travel to South America, where they become involved in a plot to rob an emerald smuggler (Omar Sharif) of his fortune. Green Ice features a title sequence by Maurice Binder, the creative genius responsible for most of the … Continue reading

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Sorceress | Blu-ray & DVD (Kino International)

RELEASE DATE: August 19, 2014 Kino International presents the Blu-ray & DVD for 1982’s Sorceress, directed by Jack Hill (Foxy Brown, The Big Bird Cage). With its gratuitous nudity, hilarious dialogue, abundant special effects, and a thrilling score from future Oscar-winning A-list composer James Horner (Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Titanic), Sorceress is a fine piece of entertaining schlock. Definitely one of the most wackiest titles of the 80s barbarian film trend, made … Continue reading

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Seed of Darkness | DVD (Tokyo Shock)

RELEASE DATE: August 12, 2014 Tokyo Shock presents the DVD for the 2006 Malaysian-Chinese film Seed of Darkness (aka Nephesh Seed), directed by Michael Chuah (Fist of Dragon). In the tradition of Japanese horror classics The Ring and The Grudge! A woman decides to undergo an “in-vitro fertilization process” in Singapore to have a child of her own. 7 years later, after moving to anew apartment, the child begins to behave … Continue reading

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Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director’s Cut | Blu-ray & DVD (Warner)

RELEASE DATE: September 30, 2014 Warner presents the Blu-ray & DVD combo for 1984’s Once Upon a Time in America: Extended Director’s Cut, directed by Sergio Leone (Dollars Trilogy). The Extended Director’s Cut (251 minutes) is being released in two different versions: a 2-Disc Extended Director’s Cut Collector’s Edition (photo), which contains the Extended Director’s Cut, the 1984 theatrical edition, Digital HD with UltraViolet, plus the 32-page book with rare photos … Continue reading

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Once Upon a Time in Vietnam | aka Lua Phat | DVD (Lionsgate)

RELEASE DATE: July 1, 2014 Lionsgate presents the DVD for Once Upon a Time in Vietnam (aka Lua Phat), directed, written by and starring Dustin Nguyen (The Rebel). On a mission to retrieve fugitives from the Emperor in Vietnam, Dao, a commander in the Emperor’s army, is assigned to protect a peaceful small town from being taken over by a crime boss. Soon, Dao’s past catches up with him, threatening to … Continue reading

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Mr. Majestyk | Blu-ray & DVD (Kino Lorber)

RELEASE DATE: August 12, 2014 Kino Lorber presents the Blu-ray & DVD for 1974’s Mr. Majestyk. Charles Bronson stars as Majestyk, an ex-con and Vietnam vet whose efforts to run a farm are thwarted by narrow-minded locals and corrupt cops. But when a Mafia hitman (Al Lettieri) destroys Majestyk’s crop, the farmer’s fuse is finally blown. With his rifle in hand and his girlfriend (Linda Cristal) at the wheel, he goes … Continue reading

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A Good Man | DVD (Lionsgate)

RELEASE DATE: August 19, 2014 Lionsgate presents the DVD for A Good Man. Steven Seagal re-teams with director/producer Keoni Waxman (Force of Execution) for the 5th time. After an illustrious special ops career ends in disaster, Alexander (Seagal) goes off the grid and attempts to lead a quiet life as a handyman at an apartment complex. But when one of his tenants and her family fall under the thumb of a Russian … Continue reading

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Danger Dolls | DVD (Millennium)

RELEASE DATE: September 23, 2014 Millennium Entertainment presents the DVD for Danger Dolls, directed by Shusuke Kaneko, creator of the 1990s Gamera series, the manga-inspired Death Note films and Godzilla, Mothra & King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, which many consider to be the best entry in the entire Godzilla film series. Danger Dolls follows a quartet of cute idol singers who moonlight as butt-kicking action heroines. The film stars … Continue reading

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Zombie 108 | DVD (Tokyo Shock)

RELEASE DATE: TBA Tokyo Shock presents the DVD for Joe Chien’s Zombie 108. A night on the town in Taipei turns into a bloodbath when a group of young friends discover they’ve been infected with a new strain of influenza that turns people into…zombies. Zombie 108 stars Hsiang Rong, Tai Bao and Yvonne Yao. Watch the trailer. Also, be sure to read about Chien’s next film, Zombie Fight Club, which we … Continue reading

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Ninja Apocalypse | Blu-ray & DVD (Millennium)

RELEASE DATE: August 5, 2014 Millennium Entertainment presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Ninja Apocalypse.  From visual effects director Lloyd Lee Barnett – known for his digital work in films like Avatar, Speed Racer and Spider-man – comes Ninja Apocalypse. This upcoming martial arts film sports an impressive cast that includes Christian Oliver (The Three Musketeers), Ernie Reyes Jr. (The Rundown), Les Brandt, West Liang, Kaiwi Lyman, Tara Macken, Isaac C. Singleton … Continue reading

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Swelter | Blu-ray & DVD (Well Go USA)

RELEASE DATE: August 12, 2014 Well Go USA presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Keith Parmer’s action-thriller Swelter, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Van Damme plays a member of a bank robbing gang that manages to steal a cool $100 million before some of them are apprehended by the police. Flash forward ten years and Van Damme is now an earnest, hard-working sheriff in a small town… with no memory of … Continue reading

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Vengeance Is Mine | Blu-ray (Criterion)

RELEASE DATE: August 26, 2014 Criterion Collection presents the Blu-ray for 1979’s Vengeance Is Mine, directed by Shohei Imamura (Black Rain). A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic family—into a cold, perverse, and at times diabolically funny examination of the … Continue reading

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Dragonwolf | Blu-ray & DVD (Well Go USA)

RELEASE DATE: July 29, 2014 Well Go USA presents the Blu-ray & DVD for Dragonwolf, directed by Raimund Huber (Bangkok Adrenaline). The Devil’s Cauldron, a city where violence has forged a society in which only the lethal and can survive, two young men who possess the intellect and ferocity to flourish, carve a name for themselves as unstoppable hit men. But when a woman mysteriously enters their lives, she turns … Continue reading

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Escape to Athena | DVD (Henstooth Video)

RELEASE DATE: July 1, 2014 Henstooth Video presents the DVD for 1979’s Escape to Athena, directed by George P. Cosmatos (Rambo: First Blood Part II). Roger Moore took a break from the James Bond franchise (between 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me and 1979’s Moonraker) to film this action gem about a group of World War II POWs who plan to escape from their Nazi captors and retrieve valuable stolen … Continue reading

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