Video Store Day: Slight Preamble to VSD IV
First Post regarding this past weekend’s Video Store Day.
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
Fritz Lang’s Man Hunt Goes Blu
Review of Fritz Lang’s mean yet pulpy & weird WWII thriller Man Hunt (1941), new on Blu from Twilight Time.
BR: Man Hunt (1941)
Film: Excellent Transfer: Excellent Extras: Very Good Label: Twilight Time Region: All Released: August 12, 2014 Genre: Espionage / Suspense / War Synopsis: A big game hunter is caught trying to assassinate Hitler, and becomes the hunted when he escapes and returns to England. Special Features: Isolated Mono Music Track / 2009 featurette “Rogue Male: The Making of […]
CanCon 101: The Simcom Trilogy – Prom Night, Melanie, and Curtains
In the latest CanCon 101 installment, we look at 3 films made back-to-back by Simcom’s Peter R. Simpson: Prom Night (1980) and Curtains (1983), new on Blu from Synapse Films + the forgotten drama Melanie (1982) with Glynnis O’Connor, Trudy Young, and Burton Cummings.
BR: Curtains (1983)
What became a troubled production during the early eighties eventually evolved into a cult horror film, thanks to multiple airings on TV in the U.S. and Canada, if not a brilliant poster design and teaser trailer that were as haunting and impressionable on kids as the original The Shining (1980) publicity art…
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