#Headhunters [Blu-ray]

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  Coming this Summer from SEVERIN FILMS

THE EUROCRYPT OF CHRISTOPHER LEE COLLECTION

[8 Disc Blu-ray Collection + Book + Soundtrack CD] (6/22)

STRIKE COMMANDO and STRIKE COMMANDO 2 [Blu-ray] and [DVD] (6/22)

INVADERS OF THE LOST GOLD [Blu-ray] and [DVD] (6/22)

SKINNED DEEP [Blu-ray] and [DVD] (7/27)

SIEGE [Blu-ray] and [DVD] (7/27)

BORN FOR HELL [Blu-ray] and [DVD] (7/27)

via MVD Entertainment Group

Severin Films' Summer lineup includes a massive Christopher Lee box set, a boatload of epic Action flicks, and a few Horror gems for good measure...



He remains one of the most beloved horror/fantasy icons in US/UK pop culture history, but Christopher Lee delivered several of the most compelling, acclaimed and bizarre performances of his entire career in 1960s Europe. THE EUROCRYPT OF CHRISTOPHER LEE brings together five of these Lee classics - the 1964 gothic shocker CRYPT OF THE VAMPIRE; the 1964 cult hit CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD co-starring an unknown Donald Sutherland; 1962's celebrated SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE DEADLY NECKLACE; 1967's lurid favorite THE TORTURE CHAMBER OF DR. SADISM and the rarely-seen 1963 oddity CHALLENGE THE DEVIL - with the 24 surviving episodes of the 1971 Film Polski anthology series THEATRE MACABRE hosted by Lee, all remastered from original negative materials with over 10 hours of trailers, rare promos, audio commentaries & vintage interviews, plus the CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD soundtrack and an all-new 88-page book by Lee biographer Jonathan Rigby.

Two years before the deranged genius of ROBOWAR and SHOCKING DARK, writer/director Bruno Mattei and co-writers Claudio Fragasso & Rossella Drudi borrowed from RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II, MISSING IN ACTION and more to create their own mind-blowing 'Namsploitation masterpiece STRIKE COMMANDO. Reb Brown (UNCOMMON VALOR) stars as Sgt. Mike Ransom, a one-man war machine on a screaming-for-vengeance mission against brutal Vietcong, merciless Russians, double-crossing U.S. officers and acres of bullet-blasted Philippines jungle. Christopher Connelly (RAIDERS OF ATLANTIS), Luciano Pigozzi (ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK) and Jim Gaines (ISLAND OF THE LIVING DEAD) co-star in this exploding bamboo gun-tower of "Mattei magic at its finest" (Good Efficient Butchery), now mastered in 2K from the original negative for the first time.

In STRIKE COMMANDO 2, Mattei and crew return to the Philippine jungles with a higher budget, bigger action and Richard Harris (yes, that Richard Harris) for a crowd-pleaser that shamelessly borrows from APOCALYPSE NOW, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, RAMBO and beyond. This time, Sgt Mike Ransom (Brent Huff of GWENDOLINE fame) battles the KGB, rogue CIA agents, an army of ninjas, a tough bar owner (Miss World 1977 Mary Stavin) and "all the stuntman craziness and explosions you can cram into 90 minutes" (DTV Connoisseur). Mel Davidson (ROBOWAR) and Vic Diaz (THE BIG BIRD CAGE) co-star in this slow-motion machine-gun of Mattei mayhem that's "just as insane as its predecessor" (Good Efficient Butchery), now featuring a 2K scan from the original negative for the first time ever.

From producer Dick Randall - whose international trashterpieces include ESCAPE FROM WOMEN'S PRISON, THE WILD WILD WORLD OF JAYNE MANSFIELD and PIECES - comes perhaps the most notorious all-star Philippine productions of the '80s, INVADERS OF THE LOST GOLD. In the last days of WWII, a Japanese platoon is attacked by headhunters while attempting to hide millions in gold. 36 years later, a grizzled guide (onetime Academy Award® nominee Stuart Whitman) is hired to lead an expedition - including Woody Strode (SPARTACUS), Harold 'Oddjob' Sakata and Laura 'Emanuelle' Gemser - into a jungle inferno of greed, violence, nudity and murder. Edmund Purdom (ABSURD) and Glynis Barber (DEMPSEY AND MAKEPEACE) co-star in this "delicious piece of atrocity cake" (Funxton) directed by Alan Birkenshaw (KILLER'S MOON) - also known as HORROR SAFARI - now scanned in 2K for the first time ever.

His mind-blowing work as an FX artist has included everything from Frank Henenlotter's BRAIN DAMAGE and FRANKENHOOKER to Matthew Barney's CREMASTER CYCLE. And for SKINNED DEEP, his 2004 debut as writer/producer/director, Gabe Bartalos created this "demented gift from the B-Movie Gods" (Bloody Good Horror) about a rural clan of psychotic freaks, the killing spree "that takes us places and shows us things we've never seen before" (Dread Central) and the final girl that may be their depraved undoing. Warwick Davis (LEPRECHAUN) and Jason Dugre (SAINT BERNARD) star - with an appearance by fandom legend Forrest J. Ackerman - in this "brutal, bloody forgotten masterpiece" (Morbidly Beautiful) featuring music by Captain Sensible of The Damned, now scanned uncut in 2K from the original negative for the first time ever.

From co-directors Paul Donovan and Maura O'Connell (DEFCON-4) comes one of the most disturbing - and rarely-seen - Canadian shockers of the '80s, SIEGE, which was inspired by the actual 42-day Halifax police strike. When a local group of right-wing vigilantes massacres the patrons of a gay bar, the sole survivor seeks refuge in a nearby apartment building whose residents must now defend themselves in a night of hate, terror and bloodshed. Doug Lennox (BREAKING POINT), Tom Nardini (CAT BALLOU), Jack Blum (HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME) and Keith Knight (MY BLOODY VALENTINE) star in this "dark and intense thriller, still uncomfortably relevant 35 years after it was made" (Blog Of Horror) - released in the U.S. as SELF DEFENSE - scanned in 2K from the original negative recently discovered in a Nova Scotia archive.

In 1976, Montreal filmmaker Denis Héroux - future director of THE UNCANNY and Oscar®-nominated producer of ATLANTIC CITY - adapted the true story of Chicago mass murderer Richard Speck to war-torn Belfast, where a disturbed Vietnam vet drifter (Mathieu Carrière of MALPERTUIS and BILITIS fame) brutalizes a dorm full of student nurses in BORN FOR HELL. Re-edited by its video distributor and released as NAKED MASSACRE, Héroux's harrowing director's cut has remained unseen in America until now. Debra Berger (THE INGLORIOUS BASTARDS), Leonora Fani (GIALLO IN VENICE), Christine Boisson (EMMANUELLE), Ely Galleani (BABA YAGA) and Carole Laure (SWEET MOVIE) co-star in this "uncompromising and unfathomably grim work of art" (Video Basement), scanned in 2K from an uncut 35mm print discovered in The National Archives of Canada.

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BGO Staff Picks 2018

The fine folks who put in the work behind the counters at Beat Goes On stores all over the world have humbly submitted for you their lists of their most favourite albums, movies, TV shows, games, concerts and other miscellany for your approval.  Enjoy responsibly.

BRANTFORD

Aiden

Albums

1. Foxing - Nearer My God

2. mewithoutYou - Untitled

3. boygenius - boygenius ep

4. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

5. Thrice - Palms

Concerts

1. The XX

2. Foxing

3. Toe

4. mewithoutYou

5. Tokyo Police Club

Chris

Albums

1. Jim James - Unified Distortion

2. Voidz - Virtue

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Johnny Marr - Call The Comet

5. Gorillaz - Not Now

6. Greta Van Fleet - Album Of The Peaceful Army

7. Roger Daltrey - As Long As I Have You

8. Iggy Pop & Underworld - Tea Time Dub Encounters

9. Mudhoney - Digital Garbage

10. Neil Young - Songs For Judy

Television

1. GLOW

2. Dark Tourist

3. Kominsky Method

4. Final Space

5. Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee

Films

1. Sherlock Gnomes

2. Incredibles 2

3. Peter Rabbit

4. The Grinch

5. Hotel Transylvania 3

Justin

Albums

1. Neil Young - Songs For Judy

2. Alice In Chains - Rainer Fog

3. Johnny Marr - Call The Comet

4. Jack White - Boarding House Reach

Films

1. Avengers: Infinity War

2. Black Panther

3. Mission Impossible: Fallout

Concerts

1. Dinosaur Jr. at Danforth Music Hall, Toronto

2. Jack White at Budweiser Gardens, London

Karen

Albums

1. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

2. Johnny Marr - Call The Comet

3. Leon Bridges - Good Thing

4. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

5. MGMT - Little Dark Age

Rob

Albums

1. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer

2. Young Fathers - Cocoa Sugar

3. Dan Mangan - Love Is Magic

4. MGMT - Little Dark Age

Films

1. A Quiet Place

2. Upgrade

3. Annihilation

4. Mario

5. Black Panther

Games

1. Spider-Man

2. Starlink: Battle For Atlas

3. Hitman 2

4. A Way Out

5. Donut Country

Concerts

1. Broken Social Scene at Supercrawl, Hamilton

BURLINGTON

Julie

Albums

1. Gorillaz - The Now Now

2. Beach House - 7

3. Mitski - Be The Cowboy

4. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

5. Cat Power - Wanderer

Films

1. The Meg

2. Black Panther

3. Coco

4. Avengers: Infinity War

5. Bohemian Rhapsody

Katelyn

Albums

1. Mother Mother - Dance & Cry

2. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

3. Gorillaz - The Now Now

4. Metric - Art Of Doubt

5. Florence + The Machine - High As Hope

Films

1. Deadpool 2

2. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

3. Black Panther

4. Coco

5. Incredibles 2

Games

1. Life Is Strange: Before The Storm

2. Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

3. Detroit: Become Human

4. Spider-Man

5. The Walking Dead: The Final Season

Lana

Albums

1. Metric - Art Of Doubt

2. Mother Mother - Dance & Cry

3. Muse - Simulation Theory

4. Gorillaz - The Now Now

5. Florence + The Machine - High As Hope

Films

1. Black Panther

2. Deadpool 2

3. Ocean’s 8

4. Annihilation

5. The Spy Who Dumped Me

Mike

Albums

1. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

2. Jack White - Boarding House Reach

3. Mitski - Be The Cowboy

4. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

5. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

Games

1. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

3. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

4. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

5. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Sean

Albums

1. Mitski - Be The Cowboy

2. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake

3. Kero Kero Bonito - Time ‘n’ Place

4. Brockhampton - Iridescence

5. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

Films

1. Hereditary

2. Annihilation

3. Suspiria

4. Mandy

5. Eighth Grade

Games

1. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

2. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

3. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

4. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

5. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

Steph

Albums

1. Dear Rouge - Phases

2. Metric - Art Of Doubt

3. Now Now - Saved

4. Frank Turner - Be More Kind

5. Chvrches - Love Is Dead

Films

1. Crazy Rich Asians

2. Black Panther

3. Love, Simon

4. A Simple Favor

5. Widows

Games

1. Shadow Of The Tomb Raider

2. Life Is Strange: Before The Storm

3. Detroit: Become Human

4. Spider-Man

5. The Walking Dead: The Final Season

CAMBRIDGE

Alex

Albums

1. Tesseract - Sonder

2. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

3. The Ocean - Phanerozoic I: Palaezoic

4. Judas Priest - Firepower

5. Between The Buried & Me - Automata II

Films

1. Solo: A Star Wars Story

2. Ready Player One

3. Avengers: Infinity War

4. Annihilation

5. Bohemian Rhapsody

Games

1. Red Dead Redemption II

2. Sea Of Thieves

3. God Of War

4. Detroit: Become Human

5. A Way Out

Angela

Albums

1. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

2. Muse - Simulation Theory

3. Twenty-One Pilots - Trench

4. Sleep - The Science

Films

1. Bohemian Rhapsody

2. Venom

3. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald

4. Deadpool 2

5. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

Josh

Albums

1. Kurt Vile - Bottle It Up

2. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

3. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

4. Harm’s Way - Post Human

5. Judas Priest - Firepower

Films

1. Avengers: Infinity War

2. Venom

3. Halloween

4. Deadpool 2

5. Ready Player One

Kayla

Albums

1. Moby - Everything Was Beautiful & Nothing Hurt

2. The Decemberists - I’ll Be Your Girl

3. Sleep - The Sciences

4. Jonathan Davis - Labyrinth

5. 30STM - America

Films

1. Black Panther

2. Avengers: Infinity War

3. Bohemian Rhapsody

4. Venom

5. Ant-Man & The Wasp

Games

1. World Of Warcraft: Batle for Azeroth

Shane

Albums

1. Sleep - The Sciences

2. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers

3. Oh Sees - Smote Reverser

4. Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth

5. Chvrches - Love Is Dead

Hon. Mentions: Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch, Black Panther OST

Television

1. Disenchantment

2. Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

3. Final Space

4. Haunting Of Hill House

5. Hilda

Films

1. Black Panther

2. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

3. A Quiet Place

4. Avengers: Infinity War

5. Isle Of Dogs

Hon. Mentions: Aquaman, Bumblebee, Happytime Murders

Vinyl

1. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles OST (1990)(Orange & Green Vinyl)

2. Fritz The Cat (Picture Disc)

3. Chris Cornell - When Bad Does Good (7″ w/Mother Love Bone Cover B-Side)

4. Primus reissues

5. Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Live At The Twist & Shout

GUELPH

Jake

Albums

1. Sleep - The Sciences

2. Sumac - Love In Shadow

3. High On Fire - Electric Messiah

4. YOB - Our Raw Heart

5. Baptists - Beacon Of Faith

Joel

Albums

1. mewithoutYou - Untitled LP & Untitled EP

2. Ben Howard - Noonday Dream

3. Slow Machete - Ola Mala

4. Mark Kozelek - Mark Kozelek

5. My Epic - Ultraviolet

Albums Discovered While Reading Year End Lists

1. Typhoon - Offerings

2. The Magic Lantern - To The Islands

3. Barbarossa - Lier

4. Valley Maker - Rhodedendron

5. Bas Jan - Yes I Jan

Films

1. Transit

2. Annihilation

3. An Elephant Sitting Still

4. State Kitchen

5. Our Time

Steve

Albums

1. Efrim Manuel Menuck - Pissing Stars

2. (Ph)authers - (Ph)authers

3. Smallertide - All Among The Northern Lights

4. Tim Hecker - Konoyo

5. Hifiklub & Lee Ranaldo - In Doubt Shadow Him

6. Nadia Struiwigh - WHRRu

7. Hibernis - Middle Of The Meds

8. Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu Ledesma - Limpid As The Solitudes

9. Low - Double Negative

10. Foudre! - Kami

KITCHENER

Brady

Albums

1. Neko Case - Hell-On

2. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

3. Kamasi Washington - Heaven & Earth

4. John Coltrane - Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album

5. Esperanza Spalding - 12 Little Spells

Films

1. A Quiet Place

2. The Mule

3. Welcome To Marwen

4. Ballad Of Buster Scruggs

5. BlacKkKlansman

Used Vinyl Finds

1. Starchild - Children Of The Stars

2. The Ramones - The Ramones

3. The Clash - Combat Rock

4. Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years

5. Paul Horn - Inside The Great Pyramid

6. The The - Infected

7. Herbie Hancock - Headhunters

8. Freddie Hubbard - First Light

9. Straight To Hell OST

10. Elvis Presley - Elvis Presley

BGO Used CD/DVD/Blu-ray Finds

1. The Hidden Fortress (1958)

2. Seven Samurai (1954)

3. Paper Moon (1973)

4. Metropolis (1927)

5. Tsuyoshi Yamamoto Trio - Midnight Sugar (1974)

Ryan

Albums

1. Franz Ferdinand - Always Ascending

2. Riva Starr - Curveballs

3. The Sheepdogs - Changing Colours

4. Paul McCartney - Egypt Station

5. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Merrie Land

Vinyl Reissues

1. Katamari Damacy OST

2. The Rutles - All You Need Is Cash

3. XTC - Apple Venue Vol. 1

4. U2 - Achtung Baby

5. Liz Phair - Whitechocolatespaceegg

Games

1. Yakuza 6: The Song Of Life

2. Fire Pro Wrestling

3. Burnout Paradise Remastered

4. Soul Calibur VI

5. Far Cry 5

LONDON

Jay

Albums

1. Joe Bonamassa - Redemption

2. Joe Bonamassa & Beth Hart - Black Coffee

3. Joe Bonamassa - British Blues Explosion

4. Buddy Guy - Blues Is Alive And Well

5. Billy Gibbons - Big Bad Blues

Rob

Films

1. Heredity

2. A Quiet Place

3. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

4. Mandy

5. Upgrade

OAKVILLE

Antonio

Albums

1. Janelle Monae - Dirty Computer

2. Eyedress - Sensitive G

3. Florence + The Machine - High As Hope

4. Various - The Grinch OST

5. Metric - Art Of Doubt

Films

1. Roma

2. The Death And Life Of John F. Donovan

3. Museo

4. Burning

5. Gloria Bell

Cory

Albums

Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

Idles - Joy As An Act Of Resistance

JPEGMafia - Veteran

Mac Miller - Swimming

Saba - Care For Me

Dan

Albums

1. Jeff Rosenstock - Post

2. Tribulation - Down Below

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Wasteland

5. Andrew W.K. - You’re Not Alone

Films

1. First Reformed

2. The Favourite

3. Mandy

4. Roma

5. Hereditary

Drake

Albums

Car Seat Headrest - Twin Fantasy

Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts

MGMT - Little Dark Age

Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

Jack

Films

1. Hereditary

2. Eighth Grade

3. Boy Erased

4. Bohemian Rhapsody

5. Green Book

WATERLOO

Derek

Albums

1. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

2. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In

3. Low - Double Negative

4. Sleep - The Sciences

5. Kanye West - Ye

6. U.S. Girls - In A Poem Unlimited

7. Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour

8. Sons Of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile

9. Beach House - 7

10. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

Films

1. Avengers: Infinity War

2. Bandersnatch

3. Annihilation

4. Eighth Grade

5. A Quiet Place

Concerts

1. The Flaming Lips at Riverfest, Elora

2. Phil Collins at Scotiabank Place, Toronto

3. B.A. Johnson at Jane Bond, Waterloo

4. Father John Misty at Fort York, Toronto

5. BadBadNotGood at Maxwells, Waterloo

Favourite Things About New Waterloo Store

1. There’s room for a microwave

2. There’s an actual backroom

3. Used vinyl isn’t on the floor

4. Not fighting for space in a tiny triangle

5. The garage door

Kirk

Albums

1.Idles - Joy As An Act Of Release

2. Pusha T - Daytona // Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts // Kanye West - Ye

3. Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic

4. Against All Logic - 2012-2017

5. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

6. Noname - Room 25

7. Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!

8. JPEGMafia - Veteran

9. U.S. Girls - In A Poem Limited

10. Kero Kero Bonito - Time ‘n’ Place

Films

1. Burning

2. Ballad Of Buster Scruggs

3. Sorry To Bother You

4. BlacKkKlansman

5. Suspiria

6. Avengers: Infinity War

7. The Favourite

8. Mandy

9. You Were Never Really Here

10. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

Best Concert

Idles at Lee’s Palace, Toronto

Best Performance

Tom Waits in Ballad Of Buster Scruggs

Best Criterion Release

Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema

Best Single

Pusha T - The Story of Adidon (Shoutout to Drake from BGO Oakville)

Kristen

Albums

1. A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

2. VNV Nation - Noire

3. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

4. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

5. Nine Inch Nails - Bad Witch

6. Chvrches - Love Is Dead

Television

1. Final Space

2. Disenchantment

3. Killjoys

4. The Tick

5. Legion

6. Letterkenny

Films

1. Spider-Man: Into The Spiderverse

2. Black Panther

3. Isle Of Dogs

4. A Quiet Place

5. Bumblebee

6. Teen Titans Go To The Movies

Kyle

Albums

1. Mark Lanegan - With Animals

2. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Neko Case - Hell-On

5. Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino

6. Ryan Bassett & The Bassett Hounds - Bitches Be Hustlin’ Da Dancin’ Shoes

Films

1. Hereditary

2. BlacKkKlansman

3. Annihilation

4. Isle Of Dogs

5. Dumpsty Scott Brings The Sausages

Ryan

Albums

1. Chvrches - Love Is Dead

2. Shad - A Short Story About War

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

5. Same Fears - Glitching

6. Lissie - Castles

7. Jeff Rosenstock - Post

8. The 1975 - A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships

9. Thom Yorke - Suspiria

10. Antarctigo Vespucci - Love In The Time Of Email

Television

1. Final Space

Films

1. Mandy

2. Annihilation

3. You Were Never Really Here

4. Incredibles 2

5. Hereditary

6. Sorry To Bother You

7. Suspiria

8. Disobediance

9. Black Panther

10. Eighth Grade

Podcasts

1. “De-Louse Your House: How I Learned To Live The (Mostly) Itch-Free Live” by Kyle Robb

2. “Ditch The Itch! The Wonders Of Talcum Powder” by Kyle Robb

3. “Drywall & Me: How I Crafted A Personality” by K.R. Obb

4. “Growing Up In The 3rd Century” by Robert Kylington

5. “To Have & Have Not: A Chicken Pox Tale” by Kale Robe

Scott

Albums

1. Kurt Vile - Bottle It In

2. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

3. Sleep - The Sciences

4. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

5. Jack White - Boarding House Reach

6. Kanye West - Ye

7. Kyle Robb & The Robb Kyles - It’s Itchin’ My Tickley! (EP)

8. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

9. Neko Case - Hell-On

Tom

Albums

1. Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel

2. Beach House - 7

3. Father John Misty - God’s Favorite Customer

4. Ty Segall - Freedom’s Goblin

5. David Byrne - American Utopia

DISTRIBUTION CENTRE

Laura

Television

1. Pose

2. The Crown

3. Legion

4. BoJack Horseman

5. The Good Place

6. Chilling Adventures Of Sabrina

Films

1. Hereditary

2. A Quiet Place

3. Crazy Rich Asians

4. Sorry To Bother You

5. BlacKkKlansman

6. Eighth Grade

HEAD OFFICE

David

Television

1. The Americans

2. The Handmaid’s Tale

3. BoJack Horseman

4. Maniac

5. The Good Place

Podcasts

1. Slow Burn

2. Reply All

3. Serial

4. Stay Tuned With Preet

5. The Wilderness

Meredith

Albums

1. Clutch - Book Of Bad Decisions

2. Neko Case - Hell-On

3. Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers

4. Great Lake Swimmers - The Waves, The Wake

5. Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Tearing At The Seams

Will

Albums

1. The Arkells - Rally Cry

2. John Butler Trio - Home

3. Buddy Guy - The Blues Is Alive & Well

Television

1. The Last Ship

2. Letterkenny

3. Ballers

[brokehorrorfan]

Trilogy of Terror II will be released on Blu-ray on October 1 via Kino Lorber Studio Classics. The 1996 made-for-television horror anthology is a sequel to 1975's Trilogy of Terror.

Dan Curtis (Trilogy of Terror, Dark Shadows) directs from a script he co-wrote with William F. Nolan (Logan's Run) and Richard Matheson (I Am Legend). Lysette Anthony stars in all three segments. The cast also includes Matt Clark, Geoffrey Lewis, Geraint Wyn Davies, and Blake Heron.

Trilogy of Terror II has been newly restored in high definition. Read on for the special features.

Special features:

Audio commentary by film historian Troy Howarth

Interview with second unit director Eric Allard and special makeup effects artist Rick Stratton

Trailers

Unleashed in the original classic hit Trilogy of Terror, the demonic Zuni fetish doll carved its way into horror movie history. Now the black-magic headhunter returns to life, headlining this diabolical anthology of fear.

The Graveyard Rats – After bumping off her wealthy husband, a money-hungry wife faces an unexpected complication: a cemetery crawling with flesh-eating rodents.

Bobby – Monstrous consequences result when a mother strikes a devilish bargain to bring her drowned son back from the dead.

He Who Kills – When an African Zuni fetish doll is tied to multiple grisly murders, a young scientist investigates… and awakens an unspeakable ancient evil.

[brokehorrorfan]

Blu-ray Review: The Green Inferno

Much like his mentor Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth (Hostel, The House with a Clock in Its Walls) has never been one to shy away from wearing his influences on his sleeve. This is perhaps best exemplified by his 2013 effort, The Green Inferno; the unabashed love letter to cannibal films of the late ‘70s and early '80s notably draws inspiration from Cannibal Holocaust - the title The Green Inferno even comes from the film within the film - along with the likes of Cannibal Ferox and Last Cannibal World.

Like those cult films to which it pays tribute, The Green Inferno is a gruesome, exploitative exercise on the surface that also has a message at its core. In this case, Roth makes a thinly-veiled statement about so-called “social justice warriors,” a pejorative term for people who advocate for activism on social media. Roth’s social commentary is never preachy, nor are his criticisms entirely unfounded, but the characters in the film actually get involved in a cause, so at times Roth comes off like a curmudgeon yelling at kids to get off his lawn. That said, it serves as an effective setup for a cannibal film, and its themes are perhaps even more relevant in today's culture.

Roth may be a bit out of touch with today’s youth, as made further evident by the film’s unnatural dialogue, but his embracing of new media is commendable. The activists’ only weapons against an armed militia are their cell phones, which are utilized to shame the perpetrators by live-streaming the events. Impressively, the production predates Instagram Live, Facebook Live, and even Periscope. Roth goes so far as to feature the cast members’ Twitter handles in the end credits.

The film follows impressionable college freshman Justine (Lorenza Izzo, Knock Knock), as she joins a local activist group on a trip to the Peruvian Amazon in order to protest the bulldozing of the rain forest and the extermination of its indigenous tribe. After a close call with the militia, the protesters are involved in a harrowing plane crash reminiscent of the opening of Final Destination. The surviving members are captured by the very people that they sought out to save, who believe them to be the enemy responsible for destroying their habitat. They’re brought back to the village in a particularly chaotic scene, culminating with one of them being killed and eaten before their eyes.

The group doesn’t arrive in the Amazon until about 45 minutes into the 103-minute runtime, but the pace is so brisk you’d never know it. Once there, the action is virtually nonstop. The Green Inferno feels less gritty than its grindhouse brethren, but Roth and director of photography Antonio Quercia (Knock Knock) embrace a frenetic, cinéma vérité style of handheld camerawork with shallow focus for most scenes involving the cannibals. Its illustration of intensity - which, thankfully, is not overly shaky - offers a stark contrast to the rest of the film’s more traditional cinematography. The location - an actual Peruvian village which had never seen a movie before - provides immense production value.

This may be Roth’s goriest effort to date, which is saying a lot for the guy behind Hostel and Cabin Fever. Special effects makeup is expertly handled by legends Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger of KNB EFX Group (Kill Bill, Scream). There are several brutal death scenes, most notably the first dismemberment at the hands of the cannibals. Unlike the ominous locales of Hostel, however, The Green Inferno takes place in broad daylight. While the bright surroundings are a welcome change of scenery, it shines a bit too much light - quite literally - on the prosthetics, causing some effects to look fake. Further diluting the impact is the fact that several of the most intense scenes are undermined by moments of sophomoric humor that follow, from a diarrhea gag to stoner comedy.

Roth and Izzo were dating during the making of The Green Inferno - and they later wed, then divorced - but Izzo is far more than just the director’s girlfriend. Her character is vulnerable and on display, both literally and metaphorically, and Izzo is fearless through it all. Between The Green Inferno and Knock Knock, in which she was sinister and in control, Izzo shows impressive range. The standout cannibals, Bald Headhunter (Ramón Llao, Aftershock) and The Elder (Antonieta Pari), are appropriately intimidating, covered in striking body paint and ornate body jewelry. The rest of the tribe members are played by actual villagers.

Ariel Levy (Aftershock) is charming enough, but he ultimately lacks the charisma for which his role as the activist group's leader calls. A handful of other activists are given some dimension - including Daryl Sabara (Spy Kids) as the stereotypical stoner - but even more have virtually no personalities. Singer Sky Ferreira (Lords of Chaos) overacts and brings an awkward screen presence to her small role as Justine's roommate. Richard Burgi (Hostel: Part II) makes a brief but strong impression as Justine’s father.

The Green Inferno is the most modern title to join Scream Factory's esteemed line of Collector's Edition Blu-ray releases, having hit home video a mere three years ago. The film was shot digitally, so the picture quality is identical to the previous release, but fresh special features make it worth an upgrade. A new interview finds Roth discussing every major set piece and sharing anecdotes from the making of the film for 50 minutes. The production is fresh enough in his mind that the filmmaker is able to recall every detail, yet it's far enough in the past that he can reflect on the experience more objectively.

There's also a 35-minute featurette consisting of new interviews with actors Izzo, Sabara, and Kirby Bliss Blanton (Project X), who discuss how they got involved, their introductions to cannibal films, and the trials and tribulations of shooting in a secluded village. Nearly an hour of behind-the-scenes footage offers a fascinating, fly-on-the-wall perspective of the cast and crew working on location. A CD featuring Manuel Riveiro's never-before-released, tribal-inspired original motion picture soundtrack is included.

All of the previous special features are ported over as well: a lively audio commentary led by Roth, who is accompanied by Izzo, Blanton, Sabara, and fellow actor Aaron Burns; a 16-minute making-of featurette with Roth and several cast members; three minute-long promotional pieces largely comprised of footage from the aforementioned making-of; the trailer and TV spots; and five galleries: stills, behind-the-scenes, village construction storyboards and makeup tests, and publicity photos.

If you’re able to get past the baggage that comes with the film - which, to be honest, shouldn't be very difficult - you’re left with a badass, true-to-form cannibal flick, the likes of which hasn't been produced in decades. The Green Inferno is not the strongest effort in Roth's oeuvre, but it does feel like the most “Eli Roth” movie he’s made to date. Although unlikely to win over any new admirers, Scream Factory's Collector's Edition release allows fans to revel in its macabre spectacle.

The Green Inferno will be released on Collector’s Edition Blu-ray on June 25 via Scream Factory.