The third week of September has a lot of fantastic horror and sci-fi home entertainment offerings coming our way, including an incredible pair of Criterion Blu-ray releases—Cat People (1942) and Blood Simple—as well as the 30th Anniversary Edition of Labyrinth and the Special Edition of Brian Trenchard-Smith’s Dead End Drive-In. Other notable titles being released on September 20th include the horror doc The Blackout Experiments (which premiered earlier this year at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival), Sacrifice, The Rift (1990), Beware! The Blob, and a Blu-ray set featuring all kinds of Twin Peaks goodness.
Beware! The Blob (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray & DVD)
Newly Re-mastered in HD! The Blob returns... more outrageous than ever in this 1972 sequel to the popular sci-fi classic! Plenty of familiar faces, including Robert Walker Jr. (Ensign Pulver), Larry Hagman (Dallas), Sid Haig (Busting), Burgess Meredith (Rocky), Dick Van Patten (Eight is Enough), Godfrey Cambridge...
Beware! The Blob (Kino Lorber, Blu-ray & DVD)
Newly Re-mastered in HD! The Blob returns... more outrageous than ever in this 1972 sequel to the popular sci-fi classic! Plenty of familiar faces, including Robert Walker Jr. (Ensign Pulver), Larry Hagman (Dallas), Sid Haig (Busting), Burgess Meredith (Rocky), Dick Van Patten (Eight is Enough), Godfrey Cambridge...
- 9/20/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
When "Kill Bill: Volume 1" premiered in Australia, Quentin Tarantino dedicated the film to one of his favorite directors, Brian Trenchard-Smith, whose name may not register if you're not already a fan of schlock classics like 1975's "The Man From Hong Kong" (the first Australian martial-arts film!) and 1983's "Bmx Bandits" (starring a young Nicole Kidman!). Featured prominently in Mark Hartley's irreverently entertaining new documentary "Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!", the English-born B-moviemaker was a key figure during the '70s and '80s Australian boom of exploitation films ("Mad Max," anyone?) that rose after the Aussie censorship regime suddenly became more progressive. Since that crazy time when the limits were being pushed by such bold visionaries, Trenchard-Smith has made nearly 40 features, and as the lovingly curated clips in "Not Quite Hollywood" show, every last one is a scandalous romp. Just before going off to shoot his next picture,...
- 7/29/2009
- by Aaron Hillis
- ifc.com
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