New DVD • Blu-ray • 4K Ultra HD Additions For The Period Ending September 04, 2020

 New DVD Additions

Acorn Media

09/01/20 — Released Seachange: Paradise Reclaimed (3 disc set)

 

Bayview Entertainment

11/10/20 — Sets Act One, Big Brother (Mongolian), Darkest Sorrows (French), Family First (French), Firstborn (Latvian), Football (Mongolian), Gemini (Myanmar), Gift to Stalin (Russian), Kiss (Mongolian), Less Than A Whisper, Love in the Secret Garden (Turkish) and Wackadoodle (Norwegian)

 

Breaking Glass Pictures

09/01/20 — Released Day 13, Extra Innings and Musical Comedy Whore

 

CBS Home Entertainment (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released Blood and Treasure: Season One (3 disc set)

09/08/20 — Sets Dead to Me: Season One (2 disc set)

 

Championship Productions

09/01/20 — Released Scott Goodale's Relentless Pursuit of Excellence in Wrestling : Building a Wrestling Program 'Built to Last', Scott Goodale's Relentless Pursuit of Excellence in Wrestling: Bottom Position, Scott Goodale's Relentless Pursuit of Excellence in Wrestling: Neutral Position and Scott Goodale's Relentless Pursuit of Excellence in Wrestling: Top Position

 

Cinedigm Entertainment (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released Gilt

 

Cotton Films, LLC

09/01/20 — Released Everyday Miracles

 

EWTN

09/01/20 — Released @ Home with Jim & Joy: Denise Mountenay / Canada Silent No More and more work for life, @ Home with Jim & Joy: Jim and Joy Pinto Answer Viewer Calls, Questions, And E-Mails Live From the Pinto House, Called to Communion and Journey Home: Rachelle Parker / Former Church of Christ

 

Gemini Entertainment (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released Opeation County Fair and Tunnel Destruction

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released 12 Days of Christmas, Literary Ink: A Wizard's Journey, Mole Agent, Odd Man Rush and Tom of Your Life

 

Greenfield Media

09/01/20 — Released Fast & the Fierce: Death Race (aka: In the Drift)

11/03/20 — Sets Wingmen Under Siege (aka: Top Gunner)

11/17/20 — Sets Hero on the Front

 

Hallmark Channel

09/01/20 — Released 2-Movie Collection (2 film set: Nature of Love, Pearl in Paradise)

 

High Octane Pictures, LLC (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released Immortal Combat: The Code

 

I-Cine

09/01/20 — Released Biet Doi To Hong (10 disc set), Nu Hoang Trinh Tham (10 disc set), Tam Sinh Tam The 2 (18 disc set) and Tro Trin Tim (13 disc set)

 

ITN Distribution

08/18/20 — Released Bad Nun

09/01/20 — Released 90 Feet from Home and Copper Bill

 

ITN Distribution (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released Atelophobia: Chapter 2, Chatter and Street Where We Live

 

Icarus Films

10/13/20 — Sets Wolf House (Spanish/German)

10/27/20 — Sets Papicha (French/Arabic)

 

Image Entertainment

09/01/20 — Released Blood Quantum, Terrified (Spanish) and Z: Wants to Play

 

John Emmett (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released Archaic: Art by John Emmett, Burgundy: Art by John Emmett., October: Art by John Emmett, Sacred: Art by John Emmett and Zeist: Art by John Emmett

 

Kill the Lion Films (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released Strummer

 

Kino Lorber

08/25/20 — Released Balcony

09/01/20 — Released Black Gravel (German), Britannia Hospital, Clockwise, Denise Ho: Becoming the Song and Raging Moon (aka: Long Ago, Tomorrow)

 

Lionsgate Home Entertainment

09/01/20 — Released Rogue and Shadow of Violence

 

MPI Home Media

09/01/20 — Released Cut Off (German)

 

Mill Creek Entertainment

11/17/20 — Sets Franklin & Bash: The Complete Series (8 disc set)

 

NCircle Entertainment

09/01/20 — Released Gigantosaurus: Season 1, Volume 1 (2 disc set) and Sonic Boom: Robot Uprising

 

PBS Direct

09/01/20 — Released Easy Yoga for Everything with Peggy Cappy (10 disc set) and Prehistoric Road Trip

 

PCN Productions (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released 2020 Keystone Cuisine: Bixler's Lodge and African American Experience: Freedom Seekers of Waverly, PA

 

Rarefilmsandmore.com (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released Solange Noch Die Rosen Bluh'n (German) and Wild Swans (German)

 

Rogue Video (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released Ghost

 

Shout! Factory

09/01/20 — Released Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest (Russian), Children of the Sea (Japanese) and Sesame Street: Monster Hits

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released Beyond Wrestling: Two Weeks Notice - Atlantic City, NJ, Game Changer Wrestling: Homecoming, Part 1 - Atlantic City, NJ, Game Changer Wrestling: Homecoming, Part 2 - Atlantic City, NJ, Horror Slam Pro Wrestling: Undisputed, Undeniable & Undisclosed #11, Horror Slam Pro Wrestling: Undisputed, Undeniable & Undisclosed #12, Insane Championship Wrestling: Insane 8, 2020 - Milwaukee, WI and Shoot Interview: Josh Crane

 

Strand Releasing

09/08/20 — Sets Straight Up (ARR of 193 days; box office: $12,066)

09/22/20 — Sets On a Magical Night (French)

 

The Teaching Company, LLC

09/01/20 — Released How Science Shapes Science Fiction (4 disc set), Unlocking Hidden History: DNA (2 disc set), World War II: The Pacific Theatre (4 disc set) and Written Communications: Being Heard and Understood (2 disc set)

 

Trinity Creative

09/01/20 — Released Time Loop and Widow's Point

09/15/20 — Sets Dark Path

 

Uncork’d Entertainment

09/01/20 — Released Dreamland and Night of Horror: Nightmare Radio

 

Universal Pictures Home Ent. (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released New Amsterdam: Season Two (4 disc set)

 

VCI Entertainment

12/15/20 — Sets Mutiny

 

Vision Films (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

09/01/20 — Released Looney Tunes: Holiday Triple Feature (3 animated specials: Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special, A Looney Tunes Thanksgiving, Bah Humduck: A Looney Tunes Christmas)

09/29/20 — Sets DC Super-Villains: Movie Collection, Volume 1 (6 film set: Batman: Assault on Arkham, Batman: Son of Batman, Batman: Under the Red Hood, Justice League: Doom, Justice League: vs. Teen Titans, Superman/Batman: Public Enemies) (2 disc set) and Stargirl: The Complete First Season (3 disc set)

 

Wild Eye Releasing

10/13/20 — Sets American Scarecrow

 

WOWnow Entertainment

09/01/20 — Released Bonksters Gross Science: Fantastic Farts, Lil Yogis: Learning Meditation and Monster Class: Halloween!

 

 

 

New Blu-ray Additions

 

Arrow Video

11/24/20 — Sets He Came from the Swamp: The William Grefé Collection (7 film set:  Sting of Death, Death Curse of Tartu, The Hooked Generation, The Psychedelic Priest, The Naked Zoo, Mako: Jaws of Death, Whiskey Mountain; plus bonus documentary - They Came from the Swamp) (4 disc set)

 

Code Red Entertainment

09/01/20 — Released Toy Soldiers

 

Critical Mass

09/01/20 — Released Stepsister

 

Dark Force Entertainment, LLC

12/15/20 — Sets Drive-In Double Feature #9 (2 film set: Hollywood High, Teenage Mother)

 

FUNimation

09/01/20 — Released Africa Salaryman: The Complete Series (2 disc set) (with Digital Copy), Arifureta: From Commonplace To World's Strongest - Season One (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy), Certain Scientific Accelerator: The Complete Series (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy) and Radiant, Season 2, Part 1 (2 Blu-ray/2 DVD Combo Pack) (with Digital Copy)

 

Gravitas Ventures (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released 12 Days of Christmas, Literary Ink: A Wizard's Journey, Mole Agent, Odd Man Rush and Tom of Your Life

 

Image Entertainment

09/01/20 — Released Blood Quantum, Terrified (Spanish) and Z: Wants to Play

 

Kino Lorber

09/01/20 — Released Children of the Sea (Japanese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest (Russian) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack), Britannia Hospital, Clockwise, Death on the Nile, Evil Under the Sun, Black Gravel (German), Mirror Crack'd and Raging Moon (aka: Long Ago, Tomorrow)

 

Leomark Studios, LLC (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released American Rescue Squad

 

MPI Home Media

09/01/20 — Released Cut Off (German)

 

New Blood Entertainment (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released Barry J. Gillis Triple Threat Collection (3 film set: Things, The Killing Games, Sorrows) (3 disc set)

 

Panorama

09/01/20 — Released Evil Instinct (Cantonese)

 

Paramount Home Media

09/15/20 — Sets 5 Movie Collection from the Written Works of Stephen King (5 film set: The Stand, Silver Bullet, The Dead Zone, Pet Sematary (1989 version), Pet Sematary (2019 version)) (5 disc set)

11/17/20 — Mission: Impossible - The Original TV Series (47 disc set)

 

Shout! Factory

09/01/20 — Released Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest (Russian) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack) and Children of the Sea (Japanese) (Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack)

 

Smart Mark Video (MOD)

09/01/20 — Released Beyond Wrestling: Two Weeks Notice - Atlantic City, NJ, Game Changer Wrestling: Homecoming, Part 1 - Atlantic City, NJ, Game Changer Wrestling: Homecoming, Part 2 - Atlantic City, NJ, Insane Championship Wrestling: Insane 8, 2020 - Milwaukee, WI and Shoot Interview: Josh Crane

 

VIZ Media

09/01/20 — Released Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Set Two – Stardust Crusaders (4 disc set)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent.

10/06/20 — Sets Valley Girl (with Digital Copy)

 

Warner Bros. Home Ent. (MOD)

09/29/20 — Sets Memphis Belle

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Icarus Films Picks Oct. 13 For The DVD Debut Of The Wolf House • Papicha Arrives On DVD On Oct. 27

Icarus Films will be joining forces with the KimStim Collection on Oct. 13 for the DVD debut of the writing and directing team of Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León’s mind-bending animation treasure, The Wolf House.

Done in a mixture animation and stop-motion paper mache-like characters, we are introduced to the “Colony,” a German outpost in Chile, which is a very sinister place, but much of that is left to our imagination.  

Escaping from there is Maria (voiced by Amalia Kassai — as Almendra in the Chilean Casa de Muñecos television series), who was being punished for letting some pigs escape and takes off into the spooky woods.   She comes upon a house and her surreal adventure begins in earnest.

It is absolutely guaranteed that The Wolf House is like nothing you’ve ever seen.  One minute, Maria can be in “solid” form, the next, morphing into a painting.  The same with the creatures that come and go in her nightmare world … it is very unsettling.   The only “real” inhabitants of the house are two adult pigs, which also change, sometimes evolving into human form, which is both surreal and creepy.   

Meanwhile, Maria’s oppressor, “The Wolf” (voiced by Rainer Krause), lurks outside and tries to temp Maria into joining him. 

The Wolf House is a basic “Little Red Riding Hood tale,” with sexual and political overtones, but honestly, they are second in every way to the visuals that filmmakers Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León conjure-up during the film’s swiftly-paced 75-minute running time.

It is presented in Spanish and German (switching back-and-forth) with English subtitles.   As to bonus goodies, there are deleted scenes, a video session with the filmmakers and two short animated films — Weathervene and Der Kleinere Raum.

In other release news from Icarus Films this week, France’s premiere film production and distribution company, Distrib Films, will be bringing to the domestic marketplace on Oct. 27 writer/director Mounia Meddour’s award-winning debut feature film, Papicha.

The film opened at the Cannes Film Festival in May of last year and continues to work the film festival circuit — nearly 18 months in continuous release.   The awards piled up … so too, the critical praises.   But with Covid-19 lurking Icarus Films and Distrib Films have elected to go ahead and move Papicha to the DVD market so that as many as possible can enjoy it.

The action takes place in 1997, in Algiers, with the constant and growing threat of Islamic “purity” seeping into the culture.   Counter to this is Nedjma/“Papicha” (Lyna Khoudri — The Blessed, Luna, The French Dispatch), a young, vivacious fashion design student, who could easily avoid the coming storm by simply studying in France, but she wants to remain in “her” country and succeed in Algeria, not some alien place.

Even her parents urge her to re-think that.   And each day, in some way, we see the gathering storm.   People giving in an inch here, an inch there.   Avoid trouble, wear the hijab … maintain a low profile.   That, of course, is not who Papicha is … and therein lies the conflict.

Papicha is presented in French and Arabic with English subtitles.

 

 

 

Franklin & Bash: The Complete Series On DVD From Mill Creek Entertainment On Nov. 17

Mill Creek Entertainment looks to Nov. 17 for the release of Franklin & Bash: The Complete Series on DVD.   All four seasons … all 40 episodes (ten per season) are included in this eight-disc collection.

In this comedy series, we are introduced to Jared Franklin (Breckin Meyer — five-time Emmy Awards nominee for his work in the Robot Chicken animated series, plus such films as Road Trip, Kate & Leopold, Blue State, etc.) and his sidekick Peter Bash (Mark-Paul Gosselaar — perhaps best known as Zack from the Saved by the Bell series), who are “loose lawyer cannons” when it comes to the practice of the law.

After embarrassing the super- prestigious law firm of Infeld Daniels, they are actually recruited by Stanton Infeld (played by Malcolm McDowell) to join the firm, with one the condition understood that they will be allowed to continue to do their thing!!   As the series unfolds, we come to learn that Stanton Infeld has ulterior motives in bringing these two pranksters into the film.

It is all great fun, with a great surprise to kick off the third season (hint, hint: Heather Locklear) … and Franklin & Bash comes loaded with guest stars, including the likes of Jason Alexander, Beau Bridges, Tom Arnold and the late Fred Willard!!

 

 

 

 

Arrow Video Announces He Came from the Swamp: The William Grefé Collection For Release On Blu-ray On Nov. 24

Arrow Video, with domestic sales and distribution expertise provided by MVD Entertainment Group, has a very cool collection of films heading home on Nov. 24 from cult filmmaker William “Wild Bill” Grefé.  

Titled He Came from the Swamp: The William Grefé Collection, this four-disc Blu-ray collection showcases seven of his classic genre films … filmed and distributed theatrically over the course of a decade, beginning in 1966 with both Sting of Death and Death Curse of Tartu and concluding with the 1977 film, Whiskey Mountain.  

Seven film treasures for film buffs and genre fans to savor.  So, what do we have here?  

William Grefé started out as a writer and delivered the script to producer Herb Vendig’s The Checkered Flag in 1963, but — according to legend — the original director took ill and since Grefé had written the script, he was told to go ahead and direct it.   What could go wrong with a film budgeted for just $30,000?

The film was a success, critically, who knows, but financially for sure and William Grefé’s directing career was born.   Along with Herschell Gordon Lewis, Fred Olen Ray and even Bob Clark, Florida, not Hollywood, is where Grefé made his mark way back in the day.   

The first in the collection, Sting of Death, was shot down there. 

You have to love Sting of Death.   You’ve got marine biologist, Dr. Richardson (Jack Nagle — Darker than Amber, Lenny, Mako: The Jaws of Death), who is studying the Portuguese man-of-war, who are often mistaken for “jellyfish,” but are actually their own genus … equipped with venomous stingers, which makes them really scary.   

In any case, his research assistant, Egon (John Vella — The Wild Rebels), goes rogue, sets up his own lab and turns himself into a half-man/half- Portuguese man-of-war.   The timing for his transition is perfect as Richardson’s daughter, the lovely Karen (Valerie Hawkins — Sylvia’s Girls, The Delta Factor), and four of her college friends show up, which genre fans will immediately recognize as the victim pool. 

These “eye candy” victims are known only as Louise (Sandy Lee Kane), Donna (Lois Etelman), Susan (Blanche Devereaux) and Jessica (played by Deanna Lund, the only friend of Karen who actually had a film career, and who is perhaps best known as Valerie Scott from the Land of the Giants television series).

There was a problem, the film’s distributor couldn’t find a co-feature to go with it (double-bills for theatres back then), so if the elements worked for Sting of Death, then why not make another Florida Everglades creature-feature?   That’s exactly what William Grefé did with Dead Curse of Tartu … as he tells it, he wrote the script in one long day and filmed the whole thing in just seven.   It worked like a charm.

A would-be archeologist, Ed Tison (Fred Pinero) and his wife, Julie (played by Babette Sherrill … both her and Pinero also “starred” in Grefé’s The Devil’s Sisters), bring four of their “students” with them to help with some research — think: grave-robbing.   And sure enough, this victim pool meets Tartu, who mutates into creatures of the Everglades and munch, munch, munches them all up!

It was the late ‘60s and Grefé quickly got in on the action with The Hooked Generation, starring Jeremy Slate as a vicious drug runner (he was fresh from The Born Losers and The Mini-Skirt Mob … his long film career included two Elvis films, two John Wayne Westerns — The Songs of Katie Elder and True Grit — and a ton of TV series work).  

At some point during this period, he made his was to Southern California and directed Electric Shades of Grey for producer Terry Merrill, who didn’t have a script … just go out and shoot the “hippie scene” … it was shelved and didn’t see the light of day for 30 years.  When it finally surfaced, it was re-titled The Psychedelic Priest … it too is included in this collection.

After this diversion, Grefé landed Rita Hayworth for The Naked Zoo, a lurid drug-infused tale of adultery and murder.   Hayworth’s co-star was Steve Oliver (Peyton Place, Bracken’s World television series to his credit at the time) … it was a quick production, which features not only Rita Hayworth being murdered (yikes), but there was a nifty twist worked in for the ending.

This amazing collection wraps up with a shark movie that actually was made before Jaws.   It is, of course, Mako: Jaws of Death, which Grefé wrote in 1973, but couldn’t find any takers until Spielberg’s movie chewed up the box office, and then, as Grefé puts it, “the phone rang off the hook.”  

What’s really cool is that Grefé used real sharks in his film.   They’d catch sharks using cement blocks, a hook and bait, bring those that had been caught into a small bay on Bimini Island in the Bahamas and, are you ready for this, tie a rope to the tail of the shark and have it make a run at the camera!!   Spielberg used a big, million-dollar mechanical shark … Grefé used the real thing!!

And last, but certainly not least in the He Came from the Swamp: The William Grefé Collection from Arrow Video on Nov. 24 is Whiskey Mountain, starring Christopher George (Chisum, The Train Robbers, Day of the Animals, Grizzly) and Roberta Collins (Women in Cages, Wonder Woman, Caged Heat), as a couple who go off in search of long-buried Civil War muskets in the hills of North Carolina, only to run smack-dab into a bunch of inbred hillbillies!!

As to bonus goodies, each film in the series features vintage commentary from filmmaker William Grefé, numerous production featurettes and the documentary titled They Came From the Swamp: Extended Cut.