Wednesday, December 14, 2016

New Release Tuesday


A secret government agency recruits some of the most dangerous incarcerated super-villains to form a defensive task force. Their first mission: save the world from the apocalypse.  You must admit DC has better villains compared to Marvel.  Again, like Batman vs Superman the reactions to this movie were mixed but this one scored a lot of money at the box office so overall is considered a success and we will see how this extended cut plays.  Went with the Target Digi book on this release.


During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.  This is a horror classic.  Did it start the Christmas horror genre?  Anyway, the late great director Bob Clark (Porky’s, A Christmas Story) gave us this creepy horror movie and taught us, the audience, the killer first person view.  I bet director John Carpenter took some notes from this and used them in Halloween and that’s okay because it is very affective.  Do yourself a favor and go watch this and then watch the 2006 remake because it is pretty good too.  This is from Scream Factory so it will look and sound great and should be loaded with great special features.


A young psychic is recruited by a government agency experimenting with the use of the dream-sharing technology and is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of the U.S. president.  I love this movie and thought it was awesome growing up.  I first caught this on VHS and apparently, there is a nude scene missing from this movie when it debuted on DVD so let’s see if Scream Factory has solved the cased on this mystery.  I surprisingly do not remember if there was such a scene or not as that seems something my teenage self would have watched over and over.  Look for Norm from Cheers on here and beware of the Snakeman.


An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.  This is a cult classic that desperately needed an upgrade.  I have only seen this on one of those $5 multiple DVDs that has three other movies on it and it looked horrible and was missing the last minute or so of the movie as there was still audio but only a red screen, then credits.  This is an Arrow Video so the audio and video presentation should be spectacular on this new U.S. release.

It's been 108 years so everyone in Chi town will be picking this up.  Congrats Cubbies!

I am really on the fence on this release because most streaming services are always missing a season of this never having the entire series to offer.  Still thinking...









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