Schlock-Wire: Shout Factory Gives You More Bakshi On Blu-Ray With HEAVY TRAFFIC
May 17th
Here’s some good news for Ralph Bakshi fans: his acclaimed 1973 film Heavy Traffic is about to get its first blu-ray edition courtesy of Shout Factory. This tale of a young underground cartoonist trying to find his way in the big city was Bakshi’s follow-up to Fritz The Cat and it contains some of his More >
Schlock-Wire: Specs For Shout Factory’s 11-Disc Blu-Ray/DVD Set, THE BRUCE LEE LEGACY COLLECTION
May 17th
When Shout! Factory released new 2-for-1 DVD’s of Bruce Lee’s Golden Harvest productions, many fans hoped that some blu-rays followed. The company has delivered on that wish (and then some) with the announcement of their forthcoming The Bruce Lee Legacy Collection. This 11 disc set will contain blu-ray and DVD editions of all Lee’s non–Enter More >
OFFBEAT: A Trainspotter’s Tour Of Britannia’s Forgotten Cinematic Subjects
May 17th
If you didn’t grow up in the U.K., it’s not always easy to learn about the backwaters of its cinematic history. Most cult film addicts know the basics — Hammer films, the work of Pete Walker, Amicus anthologies, etc. — but as with any country’s cinema, there’s a host of lesser-known but equally deserving obscurities More >
Digi-Schlock: THE NAME OF THE GAME IS KILL (VCI DVD)
May 16th
It pays to be optimistic if you’re a genre fan. The ranks of the genre fanbase tend to be the most tenacious when it comes to unearthing forgotten films and reviving them on home video — and each year sees plenty of miraculous cinematic recoveries making their way back to the digital realm. One of More >
Schlock-Wire: Shout Factory Brings Luc Besson’s EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF ADELE BLANC-SEC To Blu-Ray And DVD
May 15th
Here is some big news for fans of Luc Besson: his 2010 film The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adele Blanc-Sec will finally make its debut in the U.S. on home video courtesy of Shout! Factory. This blend of fantasy and adventure was adapted from a comic book and features such notable french actors as Mathieu Amalric More >
THE EVICTORS: The Last Of The Southern Retro Drive-In Chillers
May 14th
A lot of the work of Southern filmmaker Charles B. Pierce has a quality that is best summed up by the word “quaint”: he specialized in films based on legends, mostly chose subjects that allowed for a period setting and made his films with a style that harkened back to the techniques of past filmmaking More >
Schlock-Wire: Grindhouse Releasing Returns With A Diverse Slate Of Cult Movie Blu-Rays And DVD’s
May 13th
Some major news for fans of horror and exploitation fare: Grindhouse Releasing is making a return to the home video market with a diverse array of titles: long-lost oddity An American Hippie In Israel and British shocker Corruption will be the company’s first new blu-ray and DVD releases, with a target date of September 10th. More >
THE NAME OF THE GAME IS KILL: Back To The Days Of The Story-Driven Psycho
May 13th
Before Halloween and the Friday The 13th sequels popularized the faceless killer, audiences expected a cinematic mass murderer to have both personality and psychology. The success of Psycho, not to mention Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, made these two elements vital to the success of any kill-crazed horror shocker. These films downplay the “racking up More >
FEMALE TEACHER HUNTING: Diving Into The Psychosexual Id, Nikkatsu Style
May 10th
One of the most interesting things about Nikkatsu’s line of “Roman Porno” softcore films is how fearless they were about diving into taboo areas of sexual fantasy. In their attempts to cater to every conceivable whim or fetish of their audience, Nikkatsu filmmakers delved into areas that would be considered too taboo or underground to More >
COMPLIANCE: The Arthouse Is Also Capable Of Exploitation
May 8th
John Waters once said he makes “exploitation films for art houses.” It was a joke but there are filmmakers live out that joke for real. A little-discussed but ongoing part of the arthouse repertoire revolves around films that dress up their desire to push buttons and exploit sensitive subject matter in some sort of phony More >
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