"Weird: The Al Yankovic Story" (2022) Al Yankovic (played by Daniel Radcliffe) went against his conservative factory working father (played by Toby Huss) to go into a career with music in a specifically niche form. Armed with an accordion and with a love for changing lyrics of existing songs for comedic value, the young college kid rises to stardom quickly by his reinterpretations of songs by The Knack, Joan Jett, Queen and more, hitting the top of the pop charts. With the aid of his childhood idol and radio DJ mentor Dr. Demento (played by Rainn Wilson) and the support of Scotti Brothers Records head Tony Scotti (played by Al Yankovic himself), things are bright for the young musician. But with fame and fortune comes consequences, such as the toxic relationship with pop superstar Madon...

Exiled to provinces for his brutal tactics, police detective Kuriowa (Black Dagger's Tetsuya Watari) is brought to Sanno by chief Akama (Goke, The Body Snatcher from Hell's Nobuo Kaneko) in anticipation of Yakuza organization Yamashiro moving in on the smaller gambling operation of local gang Nishida whose top dog Matsunaga (Graveyard of Honor's Kenji Imai) is away serving a prison sentence. No sooner does Kuriowa return than he provokes two Nishida men into a fight and brings them in under suspicion of participating in a robbery. Eager to make peace and buy his cooperation, acting Nishida boss Sugi (Zatoichi the Outlaw's Takuya Fujioka

After years of trying to teach arrogant shits the whys of human existence through literature, college professor Harry Wild (Somewhere in Time's Jane Seymour) retires in hopes of writing a great novel; that is, after getting off her face and snogging the new archaeology professor. Faced with a blank page, she goes shopping and winds up on the wrong end of a mugging. An unwelcome guest in the household of her Dublin police detective son Charlie (Copper's Kevin Ryan), Harry comes across her son's case files for the brutal murder of a former child molester and recognizes the murder scene as being inspired by a scene from the obscure Elizabethan play "Calabras" in the series opener "When Harry Met Fergus" (49:23). When her son proves anything but receptive to her input, she takes it upon herself to do some investigating of her own with the reluctant help of her juvenile assailant Fergus (...

Exiled to provinces for his brutal tactics, police detective Kuriowa (Black Dagger's Tetsuya Watari) is brought to Sanno by chief Akama (Goke, The Body Snatcher from Hell's Nobuo Kaneko) in anticipation of Yakuza organization Yamashiro moving in on the smaller gambling operation of local gang Nishida whose top dog Matsunaga (Graveyard of Honor's Kenji Imai) is away serving a prison sentence. No sooner does Kuriowa return than he provokes two Nishida men into a fight and brings them in under suspicion of participating in a robbery. Eager to make peace and buy his cooperation, acting Nishida boss Sugi (Zatoichi the Outlaw's Takuya Fujioka

"88 films proudly presents the first four films in the In the Line of Duty" (皇家師姐) series of "Girls with Guns" films produced by Hong Kong movie studio D&B Films in this collectible 4-disc Blu-ray box set!" Royal Warriors: Returning from a vacation in Japan, Hong Kong police officer Michelle Yip (Tomorrow Never Dies's Michelle Yeoh) helps air marshal Michael Wong (City Hunter's Michael Wong) and Japanese cop Yamamoto (Message from Space's Hiroyuki Sanada) foil the attempt of Crazy Chicken (A Better Tomorrow's ...

"88 films proudly presents the first four films in the In the Line of Duty" (皇家師姐) series of "Girls with Guns" films produced by Hong Kong movie studio D&B Films in this collectible 4-disc Blu-ray box set!" Royal Warriors: Returning from a vacation in Japan, Hong Kong police officer Michelle Yip (Tomorrow Never Dies's Michelle Yeoh) helps air marshal Michael Wong (City Hunter's Michael Wong) and Japanese cop Yamamoto (Message from Space's Hiroyuki Sanada) foil the attempt of Crazy Chicken (A Better Tomorrow's ...

"88 films proudly presents the first four films in the In the Line of Duty" (皇家師姐) series of "Girls with Guns" films produced by Hong Kong movie studio D&B Films in this collectible 4-disc Blu-ray box set!" Royal Warriors: Returning from a vacation in Japan, Hong Kong police officer Michelle Yip (Tomorrow Never Dies's Michelle Yeoh) helps air marshal Michael Wong (City Hunter's Michael Wong) and Japanese cop Yamamoto (Message from Space's Hiroyuki Sanada) foil the attempt of Crazy Chicken (A Better Tomorrow's ...

"88 films proudly presents the first four films in the In the Line of Duty" (皇家師姐) series of "Girls with Guns" films produced by Hong Kong movie studio D&B Films in this collectible 4-disc Blu-ray box set!" Royal Warriors: Returning from a vacation in Japan, Hong Kong police officer Michelle Yip (Tomorrow Never Dies's Michelle Yeoh) helps air marshal Michael Wong (City Hunter's Michael Wong) and Japanese cop Yamamoto (Message from Space's Hiroyuki Sanada) foil the attempt of Crazy Chicken (A Better Tomorrow's ...

"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" (1990) The fan-favorite 1990 live action adaptation of the iconic comic book and cartoon series characters has been a long staple of the home video market from VHS all the way to Blu-ray in various editions, whether single or in collections with the sequel films. This newest edition which comes from Australia's Umbrella Entertainment is a unique one that is supposedly their first in a "Stink-O-Vision" line, described as a "scratch & sniff cinema experience" to add an extra dimension (not Dimension X) to the feature. As there have been a number or writeups and discussions about the film by various critics and fans over the years, this review will focus more on the scratch & sniff experience unique to this Blu-ray release, as well as some personal recollections. When I moved to the United States in 1987 as a child, it was the start of Turtlemania with kids through the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" animated series. Being a kid growing up watching the fighting styles of Son Goku in the manga and animated adventures of ...

Palme d'Or: Vojtech Jasný (nominee) and Special Jury Prize: Vojtech Jasný (winner) - Cannes Film Festival, 1963 "Once upon a time, this really happened…," so says castellan Oliva (The Fabulous Baron Munchausen's Jan Werich) who shows up to model for a children's drawing class and regales them and their teacher Robert (Jacob the Liar's Vlastimil Brodský) with one of his stories as a sailor when he joined a traveling circus in his attraction to beautiful tightrope walker Diana who had a performing cat that always wore glasses. He was warned not to remove the glasses as the gaze of the cat would reveal the true colors of the audience. Oliva was unable to resist temptation and the audience whose shameful natures were exposed killed the cat and Oliva forever lost Diana. No sooner is Robert castig...

One night, a hook-handed killer butchered a couple on Lovers Lane, one of which turned out to be the wife of police deputy Tom Anderson (Delta Farce's Matt Riedy) whose corpse was found in the arms of town stud Ward Lamson. Tom's psychologist brother Jack Grefe (WKRP in Cincinnati's Richard Sanders) reveals that Ray Hennessey (Ed Bailey) was a patient of his and obsessed with Tom's wife. Thirteen years later, the Lovers Lane killer is an urban legend for all but now-sheriff Tom, his seventeen year old school outcast daughter Mandy (Lolita's Erin J. Dean), and Ward Lamson's school principal wife Penny (Suzanne Bouchard) who has concealed the details from her popular son Mich...

In the dead of night, a trio of poachers drive deep into the Shasta National Forest to make a quick buck by stealing eagle eggs. When Sam (Frank Sussman) sees a meteor crashing down behind the trees, he leaves Burt (Return of the Evil Dead's Frank Braña) and Matt (Iguana's Guillermo Antón) behind and takes the truck in search of the landing site, happening upon a cave carved into the Earth by the impact where he finds a nest of large eggs. When Sam cracks one open and discovers the alien contents, he destroys the others in disgust, incurring the wrath of the mother. Another witness to the crash is young Tommy (Beatriz's Óscar Martín) who lives at the Rangers Refuge with his mother Molly (...

Lovers Lane (Jon Steven Ward, 1999) Newly released on Blu-ray by Arrow Video, Jon Steven Ward’s Lovers Lane was one of a notable number of teen-oriented neo-slasher movies made in the wake of the critical and commercial success of Wes Craven’s Scream in 1996. Lovers Lane sits alongside other pictures such as I Know What You Did Last Summer, Urban Legend, Valentine, and Cherry Falls – all of which revisited the motifs of stalk-and-slash films of the 1980s. Scream’s sharp script, by Kevin Williamson, foregrounded a very metafictional sense of self-awareness that was often imitated by the neo-slasher films that followed it: Scream’s imitators were riddled with self-referential nods towards the paradigms of the slasher movie, often highlighting these explicitly in the dialogue in order to deconstruct them on a narrative level. However, surprisingly (and arguably refreshin...

On a tropical island in the Philippines, American chemical company E-CHEM has supposedly been decontaminating atomic waste in a plant at the base of a volcano. Greenpeace activists Jane (Fashion Crimes' Marina Giulia Cavalli) and Lee (Zombi 3's Robert Marius), however, suspect that more nefarious things are going on. Sneaking onto the island by rubber raft to evade the plant's security forces, they discover elevated radiation levels and the volcano seemingly about to erupt any day. The local missionary who first contacted them about the plant's activities arranges for them to stowaway on a supply truck and they infiltrate the plant where they discover that the plant is simply disposing of contaminated waste by dumping it into the live volcano. The two split up after being discovered, with Lee captured and tortured by ruthless Colonel Kovacs (The Silence of the Lambs<...

"Head On" (1998) Ari (played by Alex Dimitriades) is a young 19-year-old who is completely directionless in life. An Australian born son of Greek immigrants, he doesn't feel like he belongs in either circle culturally. His parents were political activists but he sees no reason to care for a social call. He uses drugs but doesn't consider himself an addict. He has sexual relations with both men and women but doesn't see himself as bisexual. He is by choice not going to work or going to school, feeding off from his family and friends. His only motivations are with meaningless sex, drugs, and rambunctious behavior, chronicled in this 24 hour period. Based on the novel "Loaded" by Christos Tsiolkas which deals with an alienated Greek-Australian young man, the theatrical adaptation entitled as "Head On" is a feature that feels quite of its time with its kinetic MTV style energy with its editing, closeups, music cues, youth culture with clubbing, sexual aggression, and angst. In addition, it does feel a bit ahead of its time in its frankness with sexuality and its am...

Aging architect Garrone (Beast with a Gun's Claudio Gora) is a lech who flirts with waitresses, peeks up skirts and down blouses, and crashes high-class parties to stir up trouble with seemingly pithy but pointed remarks. So sure is he that he is sitting on top of a secret cash cow that he flaunts what others see as an illusion of intellectual and moral superiority… until someone caves in his skull with a stone phallus. When Commissioner Salvatore Santamaria (La Dolce Vita's Marcello Mastroianni) and De Palma (Seduction's Pino Caruso) start investigating the murder, Garrone seems a man of little importance, humored by the likes of gallery owner Vollero (Midnight Express' ...

After his wife (Frenzy's Jean Marsh) and daughter Kathy (Michelle Martin) are killed in a road accident, composer John Russell (Patton's George C. Scott) quits New York for Seattle to teach music at his alma mater. In need of a remote place where he can compose at all hours, John is shown the long-uninhabited Chessman House by local historical society representative Claire Norman (Scott's wife Trish Van Devere of The Last Run). It soon becomes apparent, however, that he is not alone. Doors open on their own, a barrage of clanging sounds wake him up at the same time every night, and his keepsake of Kathy's toy ball bounces down the stairs and reappears no matter how many times he tries to get rid of it. At first he be...

The martial art of Wing Chun was developed by nun Ng Mui who taught it to one of her female students who in turn taught it to her husband when he needed to escape during one of the Chinese civil wars. The style was taught one-on-one and passed down from one pupil to another, eventually to Leung Tsan (The Postman Fights Back's Ka-Yan Leung) who established a medical practice in Foshan province with his niece Gao Fung (Hard Boiled Killers' Man-Ting Cheung ). Wary of the potential of misusing Wing Chun, he has taken on only rice dumpling seller Fat Chun (Encounters of the Spooky Kind's Sammo Kam-Bo Hung) as a pupil and taught him the basics. When young bank cashier Chan Wah (Duel to the Death's ...

Aging architect Garrone (Beast with a Gun's Claudio Gora) is a lech who flirts with waitresses, peeks up skirts and down blouses, and crashes high-class parties to stir up trouble with seemingly pithy but pointed remarks. So sure is he that he is sitting on top of a secret cash cow that he flaunts what others see as an illusion of intellectual and moral superiority… until someone caves in his skull with a stone phallus. When Commissioner Salvatore Santamaria (La Dolce Vita's Marcello Mastroianni) and De Palma (Seduction's Pino Caruso) start investigating the murder, Garrone seems a man of little importance, humored by the likes of gallery owner Vollero (Midnight Express' ...

Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg, 1991) Released in 1992 (barring a few festival screenings in December of 1991), David Cronenberg’s adaptation of William S Burroughs’ “unfilmable” postmodern novel (The) Naked Lunch managed the impossible by taking some of the raw material of the source book and integrating it with details from the life of its author. To be fair, this wasn’t difficult, as Burroughs’ early work, in particular, had a heavy autobiographical bias: his early novels Junky and Queer drew on his own experiences as an addict, and as a gay man who often struggled with his own sexuality. Later work (such as the short story “Exterminator!”, drawing on Burroughs’ own experiences as an insect exterminator) would prove to be equally autobiographical. Cronenberg’s film also foregrounds the death of Burroughs’ wife which occurred whilst the couple were living in Mexico. Joan Burroughs (nee Vollmer) was shot by her husband whilst the couple performed a one-off “party trick” ba...

Bavarian Film Award (Best Young Direction): Robert Sigl (winner) - Bavarian Film Awards, 1989 Max Ophüls Award: Robert Sigl (nominee) - Max Ophüls Festival A killer of children stalks the streets of a German village at the turn of the century. Young, highly-imagintive Laurin (Dóra Szinetár) may have seen one of the victims, or it might have been a nightmare; in any case, the seemingly accidental drowning death of her mother Flora (Brigitte Karner) in the windswept night on the way back from seeing off her sailor husband Arne (The Turin Horse's János Derzsi) preoccupies her mind. Left in the care and to care for her ailing grandmother Olga (Mephisto's ...

The filmography of director Joe Sarno (1921-2010) encompassed nearly every flesh-bearing exploitation trend of latter half of the twentieth century: from burlesque shows masquerading as drama (Pandora and the Magic Box) and suburban exposes (Sin in the Suburbs) to Scandinavian (Inga) and German skin-flicks (Butterflies), erotic horror (Veil of Blood), hardcore (A Touch of Genie) and hardcore-adjancent softcore films (Deep Throat Part II), to even a brief dabble in direct-to-video erotica (Suburban Secrets). What d...

The filmography of director Joe Sarno (1921-2010) encompassed nearly every flesh-bearing exploitation trend of latter half of the twentieth century: from burlesque shows masquerading as drama (Pandora and the Magic Box) and suburban exposes (Sin in the Suburbs) to Scandinavian (Inga) and German skin-flicks (Butterflies), erotic horror (Veil of Blood), hardcore (A Touch of Genie) and hardcore-adjancent softcore films (Deep Throat Part II), to even a brief dabble in direct-to-video erotica (Suburban Secrets). What d...

"Mondays: See You 'This' Week!" (MONDAYS／このタイムループ、上司に気づかせないと終わらない) (2022) Akemi Yoshikawa (played by Wan Marui) is an advertising agent working non-stop during a busy week at her office in which she must come up with a marketing campaign for a new product - carbonated miso soup tablets. While she is busy with trying to please her client by bending over backwards at every turn and even getting into a car accident resulting in a mild head wound, she continues on with the tight deadline of next Monday. But it seems to be no ordinary week. Coworkers Takuto Endo (played by Kohki Osamura) and Ken Murata (played by Yugo Mikawa) keep telling her that they are stuck in a one week time loop, and every Monday the world resets to the previous Monday. While she is skeptical, they tell her to try to recall the moment on Monday morning when a pigeon crashes int...

"Four more tales of terror from the vaults of Universal Pictures, starring Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, and Rondo Hatton." Murders in the Zoo: Returning from Africa with a veritable ark of animals for the local zoo – and short one expedition member who had the temerity to kiss his wife Evelyn (The Island of Lost Souls' Kathleen Burke) – billionaire sportsman Eric Gorman (Man Made Monster's Lionel Atwill) notices the attention paid to his wife by his best friend Roger (The Scarlet Empress's John Lodge). Evelyn's plans to run off with Roger are scuttled when Roger suffers a deadly Mamba bite at a fundraising banquet at the zoo arranged by new publicity manager Peter Yates (...

"Four more tales of terror from the vaults of Universal Pictures, starring Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, and Rondo Hatton." Murders in the Zoo: Returning from Africa with a veritable ark of animals for the local zoo – and short one expedition member who had the temerity to kiss his wife Evelyn (The Island of Lost Souls' Kathleen Burke) – billionaire sportsman Eric Gorman (Man Made Monster's Lionel Atwill) notices the attention paid to his wife by his best friend Roger (The Scarlet Empress's John Lodge). Evelyn's plans to run off with Roger are scuttled when Roger suffers a deadly Mamba bite at a fundraising banquet at the zoo arranged by new publicity manager Peter Yates (...

"Four more tales of terror from the vaults of Universal Pictures, starring Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, and Rondo Hatton." Murders in the Zoo: Returning from Africa with a veritable ark of animals for the local zoo – and short one expedition member who had the temerity to kiss his wife Evelyn (The Island of Lost Souls' Kathleen Burke) – billionaire sportsman Eric Gorman (Man Made Monster's Lionel Atwill) notices the attention paid to his wife by his best friend Roger (The Scarlet Empress's John Lodge). Evelyn's plans to run off with Roger are scuttled when Roger suffers a deadly Mamba bite at a fundraising banquet at the zoo arranged by new publicity manager Peter Yates (...

"Four more tales of terror from the vaults of Universal Pictures, starring Lionel Atwill, Bela Lugosi, and Rondo Hatton." Murders in the Zoo: Returning from Africa with a veritable ark of animals for the local zoo – and short one expedition member who had the temerity to kiss his wife Evelyn (The Island of Lost Souls' Kathleen Burke) – billionaire sportsman Eric Gorman (Man Made Monster's Lionel Atwill) notices the attention paid to his wife by his best friend Roger (The Scarlet Empress's John Lodge). Evelyn's plans to run off with Roger are scuttled when Roger suffers a deadly Mamba bite at a fundraising banquet at the zoo arranged by new publicity manager Peter Yates (...

"The Adventures of Barry McKenzie" (1972) As stipulated in his father's will, Barry McKenzie (played by Barry Crocker) inherits $2000 and must travel from his home of Australia to England to broaden his small minded cultural horizon. Accompanying him on his trip is his aunt Edna (played by Barry Humphries) who is more on the polite side to make sure Barry doesn't find himself in trouble as well as for her to make some reconnections to old friends. But Barry's short stay will find him in various quirky situations, from being scammed by airport customs and a taxi driver, nearly swindled by a group of hippies, nearly arrested by the police, taken to a mental institution, making a television commercial, and other insane happenings. Barry Humphries first conceived of the Barry McKenzie character in comic book form. A friendly simpleton with a crass mouth who is quick to drink Fosters beer at any chance he has, he is also a well dressed individual wearing a suit with a wide brim hat at all times. His vocabulary was not filled with expletives but comprised of a mixture of Au...

BAFTA Film Award (Best Cinematography): Russell Boyd (winner), Best Costume Design: Judith Dorsman (nominee), and Best Sound Track: Greg Bell and Don Connolly (nominee) - BAFTA Awards, 1977 Saturn Award (Best Screenplay): Cliff Green (nominee) and Best Cinematography: Russell Boyd (winner) - Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, 1979 AFI Award (Best Film): Patricia Lovell, Hal McElroy, and Jim McElroy (nominee), Best Direction: Peter Weir (nominee), Best Screenplay - Original or Adapted: Cliff Green (nominee), Best Achievement in Cin...

These four macabre titles from the vaults of one of Mexico’s best-known film companies offer uniquely Mexican takes on the ghosts, witches, and monsters familiar to fans of horror cinema and fiction. Fernando Méndez’s Black Pit of Dr. M (Misterios de ultratumba) sees a doctor make a pact with his dying colleague in order to learn the secrets of the afterlife. In Chano Urueta’s The Witch’s Mirror (El espejo de la bruja), a murderer is tormented by the ghost of his dead wife, whilst in Urueta’s The Brainiac (El barón del terror), a nobleman executed for necromancy returns in diabolical form to eradicate the lineage of his killers... by sucking out their brains! Finally, in Rafael Baledón’s The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la Llorona), a young bride visits her aunt's Gothic mansion, where she finds that she is the descendent of one of Mexican folklore's most terrifying figures. With their star-studded casts, beautiful photography, eerie production design, and bone-chilling atmosphere, these films have terrified audiences for decades, and are now available in this strictly limited, individually numbered Blu-ray box set, which includes an array of new extra features – including four new audio commentaries, and rare ...

These four macabre titles from the vaults of one of Mexico’s best-known film companies offer uniquely Mexican takes on the ghosts, witches, and monsters familiar to fans of horror cinema and fiction. Fernando Méndez’s Black Pit of Dr. M (Misterios de ultratumba) sees a doctor make a pact with his dying colleague in order to learn the secrets of the afterlife. In Chano Urueta’s The Witch’s Mirror (El espejo de la bruja), a murderer is tormented by the ghost of his dead wife, whilst in Urueta’s The Brainiac (El barón del terror), a nobleman executed for necromancy returns in diabolical form to eradicate the lineage of his killers... by sucking out their brains! Finally, in Rafael Baledón’s The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la Llorona), a young bride visits her aunt's Gothic mansion, where she finds that she is the descendent of one of Mexican folklore's most terrifying figures. With their star-studded casts, beautiful photography, eerie production design, and bone-chilling atmosphere, these films have terrified audiences for decades, and are now available in this strictly limited, individually numbered Blu-ray box set, which includes an array of new extra features – including four new audio commentaries, and rare ...

These four macabre titles from the vaults of one of Mexico’s best-known film companies offer uniquely Mexican takes on the ghosts, witches, and monsters familiar to fans of horror cinema and fiction. Fernando Méndez’s Black Pit of Dr. M (Misterios de ultratumba) sees a doctor make a pact with his dying colleague in order to learn the secrets of the afterlife. In Chano Urueta’s The Witch’s Mirror (El espejo de la bruja), a murderer is tormented by the ghost of his dead wife, whilst in Urueta’s The Brainiac (El barón del terror), a nobleman executed for necromancy returns in diabolical form to eradicate the lineage of his killers... by sucking out their brains! Finally, in Rafael Baledón’s The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la Llorona), a young bride visits her aunt's Gothic mansion, where she finds that she is the descendent of one of Mexican folklore's most terrifying figures. With their star-studded casts, beautiful photography, eerie production design, and bone-chilling atmosphere, these films have terrified audiences for decades, and are now available in this strictly limited, individually numbered Blu-ray box set, which includes an array of new extra features – including four new audio commentaries, and rare ...

These four macabre titles from the vaults of one of Mexico’s best-known film companies offer uniquely Mexican takes on the ghosts, witches, and monsters familiar to fans of horror cinema and fiction. Fernando Méndez’s Black Pit of Dr. M (Misterios de ultratumba) sees a doctor make a pact with his dying colleague in order to learn the secrets of the afterlife. In Chano Urueta’s The Witch’s Mirror (El espejo de la bruja), a murderer is tormented by the ghost of his dead wife, whilst in Urueta’s The Brainiac (El barón del terror), a nobleman executed for necromancy returns in diabolical form to eradicate the lineage of his killers... by sucking out their brains! Finally, in Rafael Baledón’s The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la Llorona), a young bride visits her aunt's Gothic mansion, where she finds that she is the descendent of one of Mexican folklore's most terrifying figures. With their star-studded casts, beautiful photography, eerie production design, and bone-chilling atmosphere, these films have terrified audiences for decades, and are now available in this strictly limited, individually numbered Blu-ray box set, which includes an array of new extra features – including four new audio commentaries, and rare ...

These four macabre titles from the vaults of one of Mexico’s best-known film companies offer uniquely Mexican takes on the ghosts, witches, and monsters familiar to fans of horror cinema and fiction. Fernando Méndez’s Black Pit of Dr. M (Misterios de ultratumba) sees a doctor make a pact with his dying colleague in order to learn the secrets of the afterlife. In Chano Urueta’s The Witch’s Mirror (El espejo de la bruja), a murderer is tormented by the ghost of his dead wife, whilst in Urueta’s The Brainiac (El barón del terror), a nobleman executed for necromancy returns in diabolical form to eradicate the lineage of his killers... by sucking out their brains! Finally, in Rafael Baledón’s The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la Llorona), a young bride visits her aunt's Gothic mansion, where she finds that she is the descendent of one of Mexican folklore's most terrifying figures. With their star-studded casts, beautiful photography, eerie production design, and bone-chilling atmosphere, these films have terrified audiences for decades, and are now available in this strictly limited, individually numbered Blu-ray box set, which includes an array of new extra features – including four new audio commentaries, and rare ...

These four macabre titles from the vaults of one of Mexico’s best-known film companies offer uniquely Mexican takes on the ghosts, witches, and monsters familiar to fans of horror cinema and fiction. Fernando Méndez’s Black Pit of Dr. M (Misterios de ultratumba) sees a doctor make a pact with his dying colleague in order to learn the secrets of the afterlife. In Chano Urueta’s The Witch’s Mirror (El espejo de la bruja), a murderer is tormented by the ghost of his dead wife, whilst in Urueta’s The Brainiac (El barón del terror), a nobleman executed for necromancy returns in diabolical form to eradicate the lineage of his killers... by sucking out their brains! Finally, in Rafael Baledón’s The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la Llorona), a young bride visits her aunt's Gothic mansion, where she finds that she is the descendent of one of Mexican folklore's most terrifying figures. With their star-studded casts, beautiful photography, eerie production design, and bone-chilling atmosphere, these films have terrified audiences for decades, and are now available in this strictly limited, individually numbered Blu-ray box set, which includes an array of new extra features – including four new audio commentaries, and rare ...

These four macabre titles from the vaults of one of Mexico’s best-known film companies offer uniquely Mexican takes on the ghosts, witches, and monsters familiar to fans of horror cinema and fiction. Fernando Méndez’s Black Pit of Dr. M (Misterios de ultratumba) sees a doctor make a pact with his dying colleague in order to learn the secrets of the afterlife. In Chano Urueta’s The Witch’s Mirror (El espejo de la bruja), a murderer is tormented by the ghost of his dead wife, whilst in Urueta’s The Brainiac (El barón del terror), a nobleman executed for necromancy returns in diabolical form to eradicate the lineage of his killers... by sucking out their brains! Finally, in Rafael Baledón’s The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la Llorona), a young bride visits her aunt's Gothic mansion, where she finds that she is the descendent of one of Mexican folklore's most terrifying figures. With their star-studded casts, beautiful photography, eerie production design, and bone-chilling atmosphere, these films have terrified audiences for decades, and are now available in this strictly limited, individually numbered Blu-ray box set, which includes an array of new extra features – including four new audio commentaries, and rare ...

These four macabre titles from the vaults of one of Mexico’s best-known film companies offer uniquely Mexican takes on the ghosts, witches, and monsters familiar to fans of horror cinema and fiction. Fernando Méndez’s Black Pit of Dr. M (Misterios de ultratumba) sees a doctor make a pact with his dying colleague in order to learn the secrets of the afterlife. In Chano Urueta’s The Witch’s Mirror (El espejo de la bruja), a murderer is tormented by the ghost of his dead wife, whilst in Urueta’s The Brainiac (El barón del terror), a nobleman executed for necromancy returns in diabolical form to eradicate the lineage of his killers... by sucking out their brains! Finally, in Rafael Baledón’s The Curse of the Crying Woman (La maldición de la Llorona), a young bride visits her aunt's Gothic mansion, where she finds that she is the descendent of one of Mexican folklore's most terrifying figures. With their star-studded casts, beautiful photography, eerie production design, and bone-chilling atmosphere, these films have terrified audiences for decades, and are now available in this strictly limited, individually numbered Blu-ray box set, which includes an array of new extra features – including four new audio commentaries, and rare ...

Originally released in 1997, Two Orphan Vampires (Les Deux orphelines vampires) finds Jean Rollin, the master of the fantastique, returning to the vampire genre with which he had made his name. By day, blind orphans Henriette and Louise seem to be the picture of innocence. But when darkness falls, their sight returns, and they wander the streets of Paris, encountering the city’s strange nocturnal denizens, and leaving a trail of corpses in their quest for fresh blood. Featuring startling performances from novice leads Alexandre Pic and Isabelle Teboul, alongside Tina Aumont (Modesty Blaise) and Rollin regulars Nathalie Perrey (The Shiver of the Vampires) and Brigitte Lahaie (Fascination), Two Orphan Vampires is a beautiful and melancholy summation of Rollin’s unique and arresting style....

Originally released in 1997, Two Orphan Vampires (Les Deux orphelines vampires) finds Jean Rollin, the master of the fantastique, returning to the vampire genre with which he had made his name. By day, blind orphans Henriette and Louise seem to be the picture of innocence. But when darkness falls, their sight returns, and they wander the streets of Paris, encountering the city’s strange nocturnal denizens, and leaving a trail of corpses in their quest for fresh blood. Featuring startling performances from novice leads Alexandre Pic and Isabelle Teboul, alongside Tina Aumont (Modesty Blaise) and Rollin regulars Nathalie Perrey (The Shiver of the Vampires) and Brigitte Lahaie (Fascination), Two Orphan Vampires is a beautiful and melancholy summation of Rollin’s unique and arresting style....

Jean Rollin’s third feature film, 1971’s The Shiver of the Vampires (Le Frisson des vampires), established themes and visual motifs to which he would return throughout his career, blending horror, eroticism, fairy tale, and surrealism to create his unique cinema of the fantastique. Arriving at a decrepit chateau for their honeymoon, young newlyweds undergo a series of surreal and sinister encounters, and come to realise that they are the prey of the resident vampires... With performances from Sandra Julien (I Am Frigid... Why?) and Marie-Pierre Castel (Lips of Blood), ravishing cinematography from Rollin’s regular collaborator Jean-Jacques Renon, and a thrilling jazz-rock score by Acanthus, The Shiver of the Vampires is regarded as one of Rollin’s greatest films....

Jean Rollin’s third feature film, 1971’s The Shiver of the Vampires (Le Frisson des vampires), established themes and visual motifs to which he would return throughout his career, blending horror, eroticism, fairy tale, and surrealism to create his unique cinema of the fantastique. Arriving at a decrepit chateau for their honeymoon, young newlyweds undergo a series of surreal and sinister encounters, and come to realise that they are the prey of the resident vampires... With performances from Sandra Julien (I Am Frigid... Why?) and Marie-Pierre Castel (Lips of Blood), ravishing cinematography from Rollin’s regular collaborator Jean-Jacques Renon, and a thrilling jazz-rock score by Acanthus, The Shiver of the Vampires is regarded as one of Rollin’s greatest films....

The immortal screen couple Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner) take the lead in this fabulously witty political comedy drama from director Frank Capra (It’s a Wonderful Life), filmed against the background of the 1948 Presidential election. Wealthy aeroplane manufacturer Grant Matthews is encouraged to become a presidential candidate by his girlfriend, press baron Kay Thorndyke. Forced to publicly reunite with his estranged wife Mary in order to present the illusion of a happy marriage, he comes close to nomination. But, as Grant and Mary realise that political success will mean compromising their principles, Grant has a change of heart. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Harold Lindsay and Russel Crouse (The Sound of Music), and with supporting turns from Angela Lansbury (Gaslight) and Adolphe Menjou (The Sniper), State of the Union is a brilliant blend of political satire and romantic comedy....

Often overlooked amongst director Ernst Lubitsch’s comedies and musicals, Broken Lullaby is a riveting and brilliant romantic drama from the pre-Code era, starring Lionel Barrymore (It’s a Wonderful Life), Nancy Carroll (The Kiss Before the Mirror), and Phillips Holmes (The Criminal Code). Musician Paul Renard is haunted by the memory of Walter, a German soldier he killed during the First World War. He travels to Walter’s home town, and, passing himself off as a friend of the deceased, is taken in by his grieving family. But when he finds himself falling in love with Elsa, Walter’s fiancée, he becomes worried that the truth will emerge... With a screenplay by regular Lubitsch collaborator Samson Raphaelson (The Shop Around the Corner, Heaven Can Wait), Broken Lullaby was rapturously received by critics at the time, with one describing it as ‘the most unusual and dramatic situation the screen has presented’....

Director James Whale (Frankenstein) directs Nancy Carroll (Broken Lullaby) and Frank Morgan (The Wizard of Oz) in this mysterious and atmospheric drama. Whilst defending a man who stands accused of murdering his wife, attorney Paul Lukas comes to suspect that his own wife is being unfaithful. Following her through the streets of Vienna, he becomes increasingly obsessed with the idea of her infidelity. Made in between Whale’s Universal horror classics The Old Dark House and The Invisible Man, The Kiss Before the Mirror is a ravishingly staged pre-Code classic....

Claudette Colbert (It Happened One Night) and Gary Cooper (Morocco) play the leads in Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife, a classic comedy from director Ernst Lubitsch (Broken Lullaby). Seven-times married, the wealthy playboy Michael Brandon meets the beautiful, tempestuous Nicole, and makes her his eighth wife. Determined she won’t be just another of his conquests, Nicole contrives to frustrate Michael’s advances in order to keep him keen. Michael, however, believes she is trying to force him to divorce her in order to take advantage of a generous pre-nuptial agreement, and a battle of wills ensues. One of Lubitsch’s greatest films, and a huge influence on the modern romantic comedy, Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife boasts a sizzling screenplay by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder (The Lost Weekend, Sunset Blvd.), and a memorable supporting turn from David Niven (A Matter of Life and Death)....

Starring Hollywood legends Richard Widmark (Madigan) and Lena Horne (Stormy Weather) – the latter in her first dramatic role – Death of a Gunfighter is an elegiac tale of the last days of the Old West. In Cottonwood Springs, Marshal Frank Patch kills a man in self defence. The town council, wishing to move away from frontier justice and into the modern world, decide that it's time for Patch to retire. Patch refuses, but with the dead man’s son swearing revenge, and the council refusing to take no for an answer, he senses his time might be up. Based on a novel by Lewis B Patten, the film made history when, due to director Robert Totten’s late replacement with Don Siegel (The Lineup, Charley Varrick), the pseudonym ‘Allen Smithee’ was born, prompting critics to praise Smithee’s debut!...

The stellar duo of George C Scott (The Day of the Dolphin) and Joanne Woodward (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds) headline They Might Be Giants, an eccentric and touching comedy. Grief-stricken widower Justin Playfair begins to believe he is Sherlock Holmes. Briefly institutionalised, he teams up with his doctor – coincidentally named Watson – and, together, they follow a string of clues across New York City as they search for their elusive arch-enemy, Moriarty... Based on a play by award-winning writer James Goldman (The Lion in Winter, Robin and Marian) and directed by Anthony Harvey (Dutchman), They Might Be Giants is an innovative reworking of Don Quixote, and is presented here in two variant cuts....

Montgomery Clift (Suddenly, Last Summer) and Susannah York (Images) star in this examination of the early career of Sigmund Freud from director John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, Fat City). The film charts Freud’s journey from graduating medical school, to his early investigations into hysteria, hypnosis, and the analysis of dreams, and on to his formulation of the radical concepts which would underpin his psychoanalytic theory, scandalise the medical world, and change the face of the twentieth century. Born from an epic screenplay by the philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre, the film was praised for its inventive and expressionistic attempts to represent the workings of the unconscious mind....

Marlon Brando (The Wild One), Richard Boone (Winter Kills), Rita Moreno (Carnal Knowledge), and Pamela Franklin (The Third Secret) head the all-star cast of The Night of the Following Day, a thrilling tale of kidnap, and cross and double-cross. An ingenious criminal gang captures an heiress as she disembarks a plane in Paris. However, whilst holed up in a seaside resort, the criminals become increasingly suspicious of one another, and their fool-proof plan soon begins to unravel... Based on a novel by Lionel White (The Killing, Pierrot le fou) and directed by Hubert Cornfield (Pressure Point), The Night of the Following Day is an eccentric and stylish crime drama, shot on location in France by cinematographer Willy Kurant (Masculin féminin) and featuring an evocative score by Stanley Myers (Otley, The Deer Hunter)....

Released the same year as Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and Sergio Corbucci’s Django, The Big Gundown (La resa di conti) is a classic spaghetti western. Directed by the great Sergio Sollima (Face to Face, Violent City) this brutal film elevated western regular Lee Van Cleef (Ride Lonesome) to his first ever starring role. When bounty hunter Jonathan Corbett (Van Cleef) is hired to track down a Mexican peasant (Tomas Milian, in a career-defining role) who has been accused of an appalling crime, he is initially outwitted by the wily bandit. However, the relationship between the two men soon takes an unexpected turn and they team up to take on railroad baron Brockton (Walter Barnes). With its rousing score by legendary composer Ennio Morricone, and its politically charged screenplay by Sergio Donati (Once Upon a Time in the West) and Franco Solinas (The Battle of Algiers), The Big Gundown has earned its reputation as one of the greatest and most influential Italian westerns. This individually numbered Limited Edition includes three versions of the film – the US theatrical cut, the extended US cut, and the original 110-minute Italian version – along with a fascinating selection of new and archival extra featur...

Immediately recognisable by his distinctive silver mask, the heroic wrestler known as El Santo (‘The Saint’) was Mexico’s most popular luchador, becoming a folk hero and the star of a hugely popular series of action films. Enter Santo: The First Adventures of the Silver-Masked Man presents the two earliest cinematic excursions of this icon of Mexican popular culture. In Santo vs. Evil Brain (Santo contra cerebro del mal), the dastardly Doctor Campos is kidnapping and brainwashing scientists. When undercover detective Santo falls prey to Campos’ scheme, Lieutenant Zambrano (Enrique Zambrano) and El Incognito (Fernando Osés) must come to his assistance to foil Campos’ plans. Meanwhile, in the same year’s Santo vs. Infernal Men (Santo contra hombres infernales), the trio of Santo, El Incognito, and Zambrano team up once again to fight a band of drug smugglers. Shot in Cuba in the final days before Fidel Castro entered Havana, these two films represent the celluloid birth of a true screen legend, and spawned a further fifty Santo films. Beautifully restored in 4K from the original negatives, these thrilling films finally receive their world Blu-ray premieres in this individually numbered Limited Edition two-disc set, complete wi...

Immediately recognisable by his distinctive silver mask, the heroic wrestler known as El Santo (‘The Saint’) was Mexico’s most popular luchador, becoming a folk hero and the star of a hugely popular series of action films. Enter Santo: The First Adventures of the Silver-Masked Man presents the two earliest cinematic excursions of this icon of Mexican popular culture. In Santo vs. Evil Brain (Santo contra cerebro del mal), the dastardly Doctor Campos is kidnapping and brainwashing scientists. When undercover detective Santo falls prey to Campos’ scheme, Lieutenant Zambrano (Enrique Zambrano) and El Incognito (Fernando Osés) must come to his assistance to foil Campos’ plans. Meanwhile, in the same year’s Santo vs. Infernal Men (Santo contra hombres infernales), the trio of Santo, El Incognito, and Zambrano team up once again to fight a band of drug smugglers. Shot in Cuba in the final days before Fidel Castro entered Havana, these two films represent the celluloid birth of a true screen legend, and spawned a further fifty Santo films. Beautifully restored in 4K from the original negatives, these thrilling films finally receive their world Blu-ray premieres in this individually numbered Limited Edition two-disc set, complete wi...

Immediately recognisable by his distinctive silver mask, the heroic wrestler known as El Santo (‘The Saint’) was Mexico’s most popular luchador, becoming a folk hero and the star of a hugely popular series of action films. Enter Santo: The First Adventures of the Silver-Masked Man presents the two earliest cinematic excursions of this icon of Mexican popular culture. In Santo vs. Evil Brain (Santo contra cerebro del mal), the dastardly Doctor Campos is kidnapping and brainwashing scientists. When undercover detective Santo falls prey to Campos’ scheme, Lieutenant Zambrano (Enrique Zambrano) and El Incognito (Fernando Osés) must come to his assistance to foil Campos’ plans. Meanwhile, in the same year’s Santo vs. Infernal Men (Santo contra hombres infernales), the trio of Santo, El Incognito, and Zambrano team up once again to fight a band of drug smugglers. Shot in Cuba in the final days before Fidel Castro entered Havana, these two films represent the celluloid birth of a true screen legend, and spawned a further fifty Santo films. Beautifully restored in 4K from the original negatives, these thrilling films finally receive their world Blu-ray premieres in this individually numbered Limited Edition two-disc set, complete wi...

Immediately recognisable by his distinctive silver mask, the heroic wrestler known as El Santo (‘The Saint’) was Mexico’s most popular luchador, becoming a folk hero and the star of a hugely popular series of action films. Enter Santo: The First Adventures of the Silver-Masked Man presents the two earliest cinematic excursions of this icon of Mexican popular culture. In Santo vs. Evil Brain (Santo contra cerebro del mal), the dastardly Doctor Campos is kidnapping and brainwashing scientists. When undercover detective Santo falls prey to Campos’ scheme, Lieutenant Zambrano (Enrique Zambrano) and El Incognito (Fernando Osés) must come to his assistance to foil Campos’ plans. Meanwhile, in the same year’s Santo vs. Infernal Men (Santo contra hombres infernales), the trio of Santo, El Incognito, and Zambrano team up once again to fight a band of drug smugglers. Shot in Cuba in the final days before Fidel Castro entered Havana, these two films represent the celluloid birth of a true screen legend, and spawned a further fifty Santo films. Beautifully restored in 4K from the original negatives, these thrilling films finally receive their world Blu-ray premieres in this individually numbered Limited Edition two-disc set, complete wi...

Amongst overlooked filmmakers, British director Michael J. Murphy ranks as one of the most sorely neglected. Having cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts, he had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Despite this prolific output – a total of more than thirty completed films over a half-century, of which twenty-six survive – Murphy’s work remains rarely seen and little championed. Fitfully available on videotape and barely represented on DVD, this comprehensive and long-gestating ten-disc Blu-ray collection seeks to rectify that situation once and for all. Boasting all-new 2K restorations from archival 16mm and 8mm elements, as well as a number of new digital captures from Murphy’s personal tape masters, this extensive retrospective of the obsessive auteur’s work is bolstered by a wealth of bonus features, including surviving fragments from lost works, and a 120-page book, all of which provides the defin...

Amongst overlooked filmmakers, British director Michael J. Murphy ranks as one of the most sorely neglected. Having cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts, he had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Despite this prolific output – a total of more than thirty completed films over a half-century, of which twenty-six survive – Murphy’s work remains rarely seen and little championed. Fitfully available on videotape and barely represented on DVD, this comprehensive and long-gestating ten-disc Blu-ray collection seeks to rectify that situation once and for all. Boasting all-new 2K restorations from archival 16mm and 8mm elements, as well as a number of new digital captures from Murphy’s personal tape masters, this extensive retrospective of the obsessive auteur’s work is bolstered by a wealth of bonus features, including surviving fragments from lost works, and a 120-page book, all of which provides the defin...

Amongst overlooked filmmakers, British director Michael J. Murphy ranks as one of the most sorely neglected. Having cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts, he had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Despite this prolific output – a total of more than thirty completed films over a half-century, of which twenty-six survive – Murphy’s work remains rarely seen and little championed. Fitfully available on videotape and barely represented on DVD, this comprehensive and long-gestating ten-disc Blu-ray collection seeks to rectify that situation once and for all. Boasting all-new 2K restorations from archival 16mm and 8mm elements, as well as a number of new digital captures from Murphy’s personal tape masters, this extensive retrospective of the obsessive auteur’s work is bolstered by a wealth of bonus features, including surviving fragments from lost works, and a 120-page book, all of which provides the defin...

Amongst overlooked filmmakers, British director Michael J. Murphy ranks as one of the most sorely neglected. Having cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts, he had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Despite this prolific output – a total of more than thirty completed films over a half-century, of which twenty-six survive – Murphy’s work remains rarely seen and little championed. Fitfully available on videotape and barely represented on DVD, this comprehensive and long-gestating ten-disc Blu-ray collection seeks to rectify that situation once and for all. Boasting all-new 2K restorations from archival 16mm and 8mm elements, as well as a number of new digital captures from Murphy’s personal tape masters, this extensive retrospective of the obsessive auteur’s work is bolstered by a wealth of bonus features, including surviving fragments from lost works, and a 120-page book, all of which provides the defin...

Amongst overlooked filmmakers, British director Michael J. Murphy ranks as one of the most sorely neglected. Having cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts, he had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Despite this prolific output – a total of more than thirty completed films over a half-century, of which twenty-six survive – Murphy’s work remains rarely seen and little championed. Fitfully available on videotape and barely represented on DVD, this comprehensive and long-gestating ten-disc Blu-ray collection seeks to rectify that situation once and for all. Boasting all-new 2K restorations from archival 16mm and 8mm elements, as well as a number of new digital captures from Murphy’s personal tape masters, this extensive retrospective of the obsessive auteur’s work is bolstered by a wealth of bonus features, including surviving fragments from lost works, and a 120-page book, all of which provides the defin...

Amongst overlooked filmmakers, British director Michael J. Murphy ranks as one of the most sorely neglected. Having cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts, he had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Despite this prolific output – a total of more than thirty completed films over a half-century, of which twenty-six survive – Murphy’s work remains rarely seen and little championed. Fitfully available on videotape and barely represented on DVD, this comprehensive and long-gestating ten-disc Blu-ray collection seeks to rectify that situation once and for all. Boasting all-new 2K restorations from archival 16mm and 8mm elements, as well as a number of new digital captures from Murphy’s personal tape masters, this extensive retrospective of the obsessive auteur’s work is bolstered by a wealth of bonus features, including surviving fragments from lost works, and a 120-page book, all of which provides the defin...

Amongst overlooked filmmakers, British director Michael J. Murphy ranks as one of the most sorely neglected. Having cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts, he had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Despite this prolific output – a total of more than thirty completed films over a half-century, of which twenty-six survive – Murphy’s work remains rarely seen and little championed. Fitfully available on videotape and barely represented on DVD, this comprehensive and long-gestating ten-disc Blu-ray collection seeks to rectify that situation once and for all. Boasting all-new 2K restorations from archival 16mm and 8mm elements, as well as a number of new digital captures from Murphy’s personal tape masters, this extensive retrospective of the obsessive auteur’s work is bolstered by a wealth of bonus features, including surviving fragments from lost works, and a 120-page book, all of which provides the defin...

Amongst overlooked filmmakers, British director Michael J. Murphy ranks as one of the most sorely neglected. Having cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts, he had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Despite this prolific output – a total of more than thirty completed films over a half-century, of which twenty-six survive – Murphy’s work remains rarely seen and little championed. Fitfully available on videotape and barely represented on DVD, this comprehensive and long-gestating ten-disc Blu-ray collection seeks to rectify that situation once and for all. Boasting all-new 2K restorations from archival 16mm and 8mm elements, as well as a number of new digital captures from Murphy’s personal tape masters, this extensive retrospective of the obsessive auteur’s work is bolstered by a wealth of bonus features, including surviving fragments from lost works, and a 120-page book, all of which provides the defin...

Amongst overlooked filmmakers, British director Michael J. Murphy ranks as one of the most sorely neglected. Having cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts, he had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Despite this prolific output – a total of more than thirty completed films over a half-century, of which twenty-six survive – Murphy’s work remains rarely seen and little championed. Fitfully available on videotape and barely represented on DVD, this comprehensive and long-gestating ten-disc Blu-ray collection seeks to rectify that situation once and for all. Boasting all-new 2K restorations from archival 16mm and 8mm elements, as well as a number of new digital captures from Murphy’s personal tape masters, this extensive retrospective of the obsessive auteur’s work is bolstered by a wealth of bonus features, including surviving fragments from lost works, and a 120-page book, all of which provides the defin...

Amongst overlooked filmmakers, British director Michael J. Murphy ranks as one of the most sorely neglected. Having cut his teeth on a variety of homemade 8mm shorts, he had completed three feature-length productions by the age of eighteen. Over the next five decades, Murphy would go on to make many more films across a variety of genres, dividing his production time between Greece, Portugal and the UK, with family, friends, and local stage performers becoming his regular cast and crew in exchange for holidays in the sun. Despite this prolific output – a total of more than thirty completed films over a half-century, of which twenty-six survive – Murphy’s work remains rarely seen and little championed. Fitfully available on videotape and barely represented on DVD, this comprehensive and long-gestating ten-disc Blu-ray collection seeks to rectify that situation once and for all. Boasting all-new 2K restorations from archival 16mm and 8mm elements, as well as a number of new digital captures from Murphy’s personal tape masters, this extensive retrospective of the obsessive auteur’s work is bolstered by a wealth of bonus features, including surviving fragments from lost works, and a 120-page book, all of which provides the defin...