Cinemaniac Mark

  At last a truly important release in the annals of Blu-ray history...THE BIKINI CARWASH COMPANY I&II Bubble Feature, courtesy of MVD Rewind Collection. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/43DKjnS (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.)

  The MVD Rewind Collection brings a little-discussed Drive-In exploitation goodie back into print, one of the last of the theatrical entries in the Cheerleader genre of the time, 1979's CHEERLEADERS' WILD WEEKEND, starring Kristine DeBell, Marilyn Joi, Leon Isaac Kennedy, and Jason Williams. Perhaps misleadingly titled and featuring a cover that leads you to believe you're getting a film from a later period and lighter tone, this one is nonetheless filled with fun, fright, frolic, and copious nudity, everything you were looking for in a 70's R-rated Drive-In movie. Looking good and loaded with extras ported over from the previous Scorpion Releasing disc, this is a fun one to pair with REVENGE OF THE CHEERLEADERS (1976). Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4a1Czil (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  MVD Entertainment Group brings (briefly infamous as the "Lowest Grossing Film Of All-Time") ZYZZYX ROAD (2006) to 4K UHD + Blu-ray, starring Katherine Heigl, Leo Grillo, and Tom Sizemore in a tale of deadly desert deviance just outside Las Vegas. Transfer looks great (apparently tweaked since its last disc release), and extras are fun and fascinating, digging deep into the film, its production and its brief infamy. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3D4qfSj (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  A quick pre-review look at upcoming November 12-26, 2024 releases (with Amazon links for full specs and purchasing):  TOXIC CRUSADERS: THE SERIES, on Blu-ray from Troma Entertainment (Street Date: 12/10/24): https://amzn.to/3OphfJC   SUPER SPIES AND SECRET LIES on Blu-ray from Eureka! Entertainment (Street Date: 11/26/24): https://amzn.to/3CEvoQF   SLICE OF AMERICA: CHARRED IN THE FLORIDA SUN (2024) on DVD from What Were We Thinking Films (Street Date: 12/10/24): https://amzn.to/3On6g3v   MEN OF WAR (1994) on Blu-ray from the MVD Rewind Collection (Street Date: 12/10/24):  https://amzn.to/3YVuuGM   ABRUPTIO (2023) on Blu-ray from Anchor Bay Entertainment (Street Date: 12/10/24): https://amzn.to/3YVuuGM   LAST SHADOW AT FIRST LIGHT (2023) on DVD from IndiePix (Street Date: 11/12/24): https://amzn.to/4hZGyzJ   Reviews coming soon!  As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

  The MVD Rewind Collection brings the phenomenal documentary 1982: GREATEST GEEK YEAR EVER! (2022) to Blu-ray in a special edition, containing content not present in its original TV incarnation, along with two commentaries and more fun. An astounding assembly of writers, directors, studio bigwigs and fans take a deep dive into the films of 1982, with stories and footage found nowhere else (Barry Bostwick on MEGAFORCE! Henry Winkler's NIGHT SHIFT home movies! Untold stories of STAR TREK II!). Almost three hours and never feels it, could have been twice as long and I'd have still loved it. A must for anyone who remembers the insane volume of amazing releases that year, and an education for those unaware. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3YQjwCB (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  MVD Entertainment Group brings to DVD a documentary about the galaxy of The 501st Legion STAR WARS cosplayers group...who they are, why they don the armor, and the good they do while often portraying bad characters, in BEHIND THE BUCKET: A GARRISON STORY (2024). Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3UIU7tl (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  A quick pre-review look at upcoming October 4th - November 26th, 2024 releases (with Amazon links for full specs and purchasing): NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST (1958) / ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES (1959), on Blu-ray from Film Masters (Street Date: 11/12/24): https://amzn.to/3NFy5nb 1982: GREATEST GEEK YEAR EVER! (2024) on Blu-ray from the MVD Rewind Collection (Street Date: 11/5/24): https://amzn.to/3Yi6H3z INFINITE SANTA 8000 (2013) on Blu-ray from Synapse Films (Street Date: 11/12/24): https://amzn.to/3YyO64F ZYZZYX ROAD (2006) on Blu-ray from Dark Arts Entertainment (Street Date: 11/26/24): https://amzn.to/3Urz1zp BEHIND THE BUCKET: A GARRISON STORY (2024) on DVD from MVD Visual (Street Date: 10/4/24): https://amzn.to/3YjHuFV Reviews coming soon! As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

  A quick pre-review look at upcoming October 29th - November 26th, 2024 releases (with Amazon links for full specs and purchasing):  DON'T CHANGE HANDS (1975), on Blu-ray from Severin Films (Street Date: 10/29/24): https://amzn.to/40fNjqO   THE RED LIGHT BANDIT (1969) on Blu-ray from Severin Films (Street Date: 10/29/24): https://amzn.to/40dFdyE   THE MAD BOMBER (1973) on Blu-ray from Severin Films (Street Date: 10/29/24): https://amzn.to/4f8YCoA   FOUND EMULSION (2022) on DVD from Wild Eye Releasing (Street Date: 11/26/24): https://amzn.to/3YnGsZQ   DAIEI GOTHIC: JAPANESE GHOST STORIES on Blu-ray from Radiance Films (Street Date: 10/29/24): https://amzn.to/4fdMDWT   Reviews coming soon!  As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

  During a government-mandated lockdown, a woman staying with her brother and his oddball housemate finds some strange seeds in a state-supplied care package, that, when planted, turn their world and minds inside out. TERROR FIRMA (2023), out now on Blu-ray from MVD Entertainment Group and Dark Arts Entertainment. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3XCEPYR (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  A quick pre-review look at upcoming September 10th-24th, 2024 releases (with Amazon links for full specs and purchasing):  DARK NIGHT OF THE SCARECROWS Double Feature on 4K UHD from VCI (Street Date: 9/10/24): https://amzn.to/4cXziAy   TATTOOED FOR LIFE (1965), on Blu-Ray from Radiance Films (Street Date: 9/24/24): https://amzn.to/47hjtU3   VIVA LA MUERTE (1971), on Blu-ray from Radiance Films (Street Date: 9/10/24): https://amzn.to/4cQo5BQ   TWO TAOIST TALES, on Blu-ray from Eureka! Entertainment (Street Date: 9/24/24): https://amzn.to/3ThEIiN   THE GOLDEN LOTUS (1974), on Blu-ray from 88 Films (Street Date: 9/10/24): https://amzn.to/3AJIUS0   MY LOVE AFFAIR WITH MARRIAGE (2022), on Blu-ray from MVD Visual (Street Date: 9/10/24): https://amzn.to/3ZtPVRx   THE PRIMEVALS (2023), on Blu-ray from Full Moon Pictures (Street Date: 9/10/24): https://amzn.to/3MtnZp7   Reviews coming soon!  As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchas...

  MVD Entertainment Group brings to DVD a pair of 1970s Canadian animated TV holiday specials, featuring the voices of SNL icons Gilda Radner and Dan Aykroyd, the Halloween jaunt WITCH'S NIGHT OUT (1978) and snowy THE GIFT OF WINTER (1974), with retrospective interviews with their creators. Two fun half-hours, with trippy 70s animation and scores, looking great in these new transfers. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3AvBTUY (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Now available on 4K + Blu-ray from the MVD Entertainment Group's 4K LaserVision Collection (in packaging designed to replicate old CED discs) is Albert Band's GHOULIES II (1987), a goofy, goopy, horror comedy set at a travelling carnival under siege from mischievously malevolent mini-monsters. Quite a bit of fun, and looks great in this new transfer, which also includes the previous MVD Rewind Collection Blu-ray and extras ported over from the earlier Shout! Factory release. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4bBTRlv (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  The MVD Rewind Collection brings to Blu-ray Ernie Fosselius' classic STAR WARS spoof HARDWARE WARS (1978) to Blu-ray in a deluxe Collector's Edition, with additional short films, multiple versions of the main feature, and packaging that will take you straight back to the early days of the video store. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4dxOGoQ (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  The MVD Rewind Collection continues its resurrection of 90s video store curious with the action thriller SABOTAGE (1996), with Mark Dacascos, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tony Todd, and Graham Greene. Dacascos and Moss hunt assassin Todd, attempting to stop him before he takes out his next target...which could be them! Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4b6kT4N (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  For those of a certain age and lascivious nature, Cinemax After Dark films were a fun way to spend a solitary Friday night. Looking at them again so many moons later, well, now they're on DVD from MVD Entertainment Group as part of a series of "SkinMax Double Features", lean on extras and looking exactly like they did on cable way back when. I took a look at the double-your-pleasure DVD of GALAXY GIRLS (1997) and PETTICOAT PLANET (1996), featuring Gail Thackray, Elizabeth Kaitan, Fred Olen Ray, Jim Wynorski (the latter in non-nude roles, sorry ladies), and bevy of buff dudes and lovely ladies. Are they good? Well.... Are they amusing for the right and wrong reasons? Indeed! Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4di26Fm (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  A quick pre-review look at upcoming May 7 - July 9, 2024 releases (with Amazon links for full specs and purchasing):  JOYSTICKS (1983) on Blu-ray from the MVD Rewind Collection (Street Date: 5/7/24): https://amzn.to/44heP6W   FRIVOLOUS LOLA (1998), on 4K UHD and Blu-Ray from Cult Epics (Street Date: 5/7/24):  https://amzn.to/3Qo3wEi   TOO MUCH SLEEP (1997), on Blu-ray from Whole Grain Pictures (Street Date: 5/7/24):  https://amzn.to/4b9fJVi   THE INSPECTOR WEARS SKIRTS 3 (1990), on Blu-ray from 88 Films (Street Date: 7/9/24):  https://amzn.to/49UTykT   THE INSPECTOR WEARS SKIRTS 4 (1992), on Blu-ray from 88 Films (Street Date: 7/9/24):  https://amzn.to/49XN0lm   HARDWARE WARS (1978), on Blu-ray from the MVD Rewind Collection (Street Date: 5/7/24):  https://amzn.to/3xZDQry   SABOTAGE (1996), on Blu-ray from MVD Rewind Collection (Street Date: 5/7/24):  https://amzn.to/49ULErF   SHINOBI, on Blu-ray from Radiance ...

  A quick pre-review look at upcoming March 26 - May 7, 2024 releases (with Amazon links for full specs and purchasing):  NIGHT OF THE BLOOD MONSTER (1970) on 4K UHD + Blu-ray from Blue Underground (Street Date: 3/26/24):  https://amzn.to/3J2WnVP   ZERO WOMAN: RED HANDCUFFS (1974), on Blu-ray from Cauldron Films (Street Date: 5/7/24):  https://amzn.to/43ExnxF   YUNI (2022), on DVD and VOD from Film Movement (Street Date: 4/16/24):  https://amzn.to/3VBTmnd   AGONIE (2020), on DVD from Indiepix Classics (Street Date: 4/8/24):  https://amzn.to/43AouFm   THE TIN STAR (1957), on Blu-ray from Arrow Video (Street Date: 4/8/24):  https://amzn.to/4aAjmUf   BASKET CASE (1982), on 4K HDR UHD from Arrow Video (Street Date: 4/30/24):  https://amzn.to/3IZqaip   THE SCARFACE MOB (1959), on Blu-ray from Arrow Video (Street Date: 4/23/24):  https://amzn.to/43Apklu   ALL LADIES DO IT (1992), on 4K UHD + Blu-ray from Cult Epic...

MVD Entertainment Group releases on Blu-ray and DVD the Argentinean Tarantinoesque crime thriller/comedy PUNTO ROJO on 3/12. A nonlinear look at three characters in conflict in the middle of nowhere, done with style and a wink. Full disc specs and buying info: https://amzn.to/3wE1SYh (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

This motion picture is not a sequel to WITCHBOARD! The MVD Rewind Collection brings a slightly slimmed-down version of Vinegar Syndrome's Blu-ray release of WITCHTRAP (1989), a supernatural horror hoot featuring Linnea Quigley in a small role as part of a team of paranormal researchers and a dubious security team who venture to house of horrors to suss out the sinister former (deceased) owner's potential sinister squatting, from director Kevin Tenney (writer and director of WITCHBOARD, which this film is NOT a sequel to). A horrifying hoot (intentional and otherwise), with fun practical FX, a solid transfer and interesting extras, ported over from the earlier release, with the throwback MVD Rewind Collection art style and mini-poster. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4bYKo9a (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

Brad Pitt in a slasher movie?? You bet your syllabus! Pitt co-stars with Jill Schoelen and Donovan Leitch in CUTTING CLASS (1989), a horror-comedy set in a High School where the student bodies pile up. Now on 4K UHD + Blu-ray from the MVD Rewind Collection , in a transfer and extras (some, not all) ported over from the out of print Vinegar Syndrome release, with cool retro packaging and a mini-poster that looks like an old CED. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3V0vidf (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here: