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The Mad Fox (Tomu Uchida, 1962)

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Budd Wilkins

“Making its Blu-ray debut, Tomu Uchida’s film is a highly stylized ode to love and disorder.” Read my review over at Slant Magazine.

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Kiju Yoshida: Love + Anarchism

Posted on June 6, 2017 by Budd Wilkins

“Kiju Yoshida’s thought-provoking political trilogy makes its Region A Blu-ray debut with sturdy transfers and some essential contextual bonus materials.” Read my review of Kiju Yoshida: Love + Anarchism over at Slant Magazine.

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When Gothic Meets Giallo: Emilio P. Miraglia’s The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave and The Red Queen Kills Seven Times

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Budd Wilkins

“Throughout the 1960s and into the mid-1970s, two very different kinds of films dominated the Italian horror genre, each accompanied by their own distinctive iconographies. The gothic style is frequently associated with the remote past, cobweb-strewn castles, and ancestral curses, … Continue reading →

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Caltiki, the Immortal Monster (Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava, 1959)

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Budd Wilkins

“Italian maestros of the macabre Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava team up for a curious (and sometimes unwieldy) fusion of sci-fi and gothic horror elements.” Read the review on Slant Magazine.

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Ludwig (Luchino Visconti, 1973)

Posted on April 26, 2017 by Budd Wilkins

“Luchino Visconti’s magisterial character study receives a stunning 2K restoration and a brace of excellent supplements.” Read the entire review at Slant Magazine.

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Property Is No Longer a Theft (Elio Petri, 1973)

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Budd Wilkins

“This dark satire on ownership and its discontents makes its Blu-ray debut with a remarkable 4K restoration and a trio of informative interviews.” Read the entire review on Slant Magazine.

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Black Society Trilogy (Takashi Miike, 1995-1999)

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Budd Wilkins

“Takashi Miike’s loosely linked examinations of social ostracization and criminality get reasonably robust transfers and a few solid supplements from Arrow Video.” Read the entire review on Slant Magazine.

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We Are the Flesh Blu-ray Review

Posted on March 10, 2017 by Budd Wilkins

“Emiliano Rocha Minter’s outrageously transgressive We Are the Flesh gets a solid transfer and some instructive extras from Arrow Video.” Read the entire review on Slant Magazine.

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Psychomania (Don Sharp, 1973)

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Budd Wilkins

“Psychomania roars onto Blu-ray with a colorful restoration and a few solid supplements from Arrow Video.” Read the entire review on Slant Magazine.

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Hellraiser: The Scarlet Box (Various, 1987-1992)

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Budd Wilkins

“Another top-shelf presentation from Arrow Video, Hellraiser: The Scarlet Box boasts crisp new 2K transfers and a cornucopia of bonus materials, all wrapped up in one gorgeously designed package.” Read the entire review at Slant Magazine.

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