Sunday, April 13, 2025
Blu-ray Review: DINNER WITH LEATHERFACE (2024)
Thursday, March 27, 2025
4K Ultra HD Review: TRICK OR TREAT (1986)
Rock 'n' roll will never die, in this 1980s cult favorite that stars Marc Price (Family Ties) as Eddie Weinbauer, a teenage outcast who idolizes Sammi Curr (Tony Fields), a heavy metal superstar. After Sammi dies a violent death, his spirit returns to help Eddie get even with his high school tormentors. In doing so, Sammi begins to gain control over Eddie's life and brings him deeper into the world of the occult. When Eddie realizes that he has become the tool of Sammi's vengeance, he attempts to stop him, and the horrifying events that follow leave no one unscathed.
Featuring special appearances by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne, Trick or Treat marked the directorial debut of veteran actor Charles Martin Smith (Never Cry Wolf, Starman) and features a legendary soundtrack by Fastway. Red Shirt Home Video and Synapse Films are proud to present this heavy metal horror classic in an all-new 4K restoration presented in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) with a head-banging 5.1 surround sound mix and loaded with hours of supplemental material including multiple commentary tracks and a feature-length video retrospective! No false metal!
- Limited edition o-card available on the FIRST PRESSING ONLY!
- 4K restoration from the original 35mm camera negative mastered in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible) and approved by Director of Photography Robert Elswit
- Lossless English DTS-HD Master Audio of the original 2.0 theatrical mix and an all-new 5.1 surround sound mix
- Audio commentary with director Charles Martin Smith, moderated by filmmaker Mark Savage
- Audio interviews with writer/producer Michael S. Murphey and writer Rhet Topham, moderated by film historian Michael Felsher
- Audio conversation with Paul Corupe and Allison Lang, authors of Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s
- Rock & Shock: The Making of “Trick or Treat” - An all-new retrospective featuring director Charles Martin Smith, actors Marc Price, Glen Morgan, Elise Richards, and Larry Sprinkle, writer/producer Joel Soisson, costume designer Jill Ohanneson, assistant set costumer Francine Decoursey, construction foreman Tom Jones, Jr., special make-up effects artist Everett Burrell, music executive producer Stephen E. Smith, composer Christopher Young, and a special appearance by Gene Simmons
- In The Spotlight: A Tribute to Tony Fields featuring interviews with the late actor’s family and friends
- Horror’s Hallowed Grounds: The Filming Locations of “Trick or Treat” with Sean Clark
- “After Midnight” music video
Theatrical Trailers, TV Spots and Radio Spots - Still Gallery featuring optional audio interview with still photographer Phillip V. Caruso
- Vintage electronic press kit
- Reversible cover artwork
- Region free for worldwide playback
Saturday, March 1, 2025
BLU RAY REVIEW: VIXEN! (1968)
Sunday, February 16, 2025
4K Ultra HD Review: ALICE, SWEET ALICE (1976)
A young Brooke Shields meets an untimely end in this religious-themed proto slasher par excellence from director Alfred Sole.
On the day of her first communion, young Karen (Brooke Shields) is savagely murdered by an unknown assailant in a yellow rain mac and creepy translucent mask. But the nightmare is far from over - as the knife-wielding maniac strikes again and again, Karen's bereaved parents are forced to confront the possibility that Karen's wayward sister Alice might be the one behind the mask.
Bearing influences from the likes of Hitchcock, the then-booming Italian giallo film and more specifically, Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now, Alice, Sweet Alice is an absolutely essential - if often overlooked - entry in the canon of 1970s American horror.
- Brand new 4K restoration by Arrow Films from the original camera negative
- 4K (2160p) Ultra HD presentations of three versions via seamless branching: Communion (original), Alice, Sweet Alice (theatrical) and Holy Terror (re-release)
- Original lossless mono audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Brand new audio commentary with Richard Harland Smith
- Archival audio commentary with co-writer/director Alfred Sole and editor M. Edward Salier
- First Communion: Alfred Sole Remembers Alice, Sweet Alice - director Alfred Sole looks back on his 1976 classic
- Alice on My Mind - a brand new interview with composer Stephen Lawrence
- In the Name of the Father
- brand new interview with actor Niles McMaster
- Sweet Memories: Dante Tomaselli on Alice, Sweet Alice - filmmaker Dante Tomaselli, cousin of Alfred Sole, discusses his longtime connection to the film
- Lost Childhood: The Locations of Alice, Sweet Alice
- a tour of the original Alice, Sweet Alice shooting locations hosted by author Michael Gingold
- Deleted scenes
- Split-screen version comparison
- Trailer and TV Spot
- Image gallery, including the original screenplay
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx
- Illustrated collectors booklet featuring new writing on the film by Michael Blyth
Saturday, February 8, 2025
4K ULTRA HD/BD Review: EVILENKO (2003)
Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer nicknamed "the Butcher of Rostov", "the Rostov Ripper", and "the Red Ripper" who sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SSFR, the Ukranian SSR, and the Uzbek SSR.
Chikatilo confessed to fifty-six murders; he was tried for fifty-three murders in April 1992. He was convicted and sentenced to death for fifty-two of these murders in October 1992, although the Supreme Court of Russia ruled in 1993 that insufficient evidence existed to prove his guilt in nine of those killings. Chikatilo was executed by gunshot in February 1994
- 4K ULTRA HD + BLU-RAY | LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION CONTENTS
- * NEW 4K restoration of the original camera negative by Unearthed Films
- * Blu-ray of the feature film and all new extras
- DISC ONE – FEATURE (4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY)
- * NEW 4K restoration of the original camera negative by Unearthed Films presented in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio in HDR
- * NEW 2024 Commentary with writer/director David Grieco and actor Malcolm McDowell
- * DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- * Optional English SDH Subtitles
- DISC TWO – FEATURE & EXTRAS (BLU-RAY)
- * NEW 4K restoration of the original camera negative by Unearthed Films presented in 1080p HD in its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio
- * NEW 2024 Commentary with writer/director David Grieco and actor Malcolm McDowell
- * DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
- * Optional English SDH Subtitles
- * An 81 minute cast and crew interview collection including writer/director David Grieco, actor Malcolm McDowell and composer Angelo Badalamenti
- * 'Evilenko Dossier: Andrei Chikatilo' A 27 minute look at the real-life basis for the character of Evilenko
- * David Grieco and Malcolm McDowell on 'Evilenko' A 69 Minute interview from 2021
- * Photo Gallery
- * Original Trailer
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Blu-ray Review: VILLAGE OF DOOM (1983)
- * Audio commentary by Asian film experts Arne Venema and Mike Leeder
- * Dark Asia with Megan: Case #57 Japan's Darkest Night, Tsuyama Massacre
- * Promotional Gallery
- * Theatrical Trailer
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Check out the 2024 Cyber Week Movie sale from MVD Entertainment!
Check out this AMAZING sale MVD Entertainment has going on this week!! MVD is a distributor of some of the top movie labels, and they have some awesome deals going on right now! This has to be the cheapest movie sale you will find anywhere online! If you find anything cheaper, let me know!